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agouti

[ə′güd·ē]
(vertebrate zoology)
A hystricomorph rodent, Dasyprocta, in the family Dasyproctidae, with 13 species.
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Therefore, previous studies [3,17, 31-34] emphasized that especially epistatic interaction of Extension and Agouti loci plays a significant role for this phenomenon.
"She asked me if I was interested in joining a project to return agoutis to Tijuca," recalled Fernandez.
Forty-three pregnant female agoutis, aging between 2-4 years, were individually housed with their young in wire mesh cages (0.6m wide x 0.6m deep x 0.9m high) over a period of 10 months in 2014 at the Agouti Unit, Department of Food Production, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, The University of the West Indies, St.
The initial stage of pregnancy in agouti is characterized by the progressively increasing progesterone levels until the sixth week.
Behavioral ecology of paca (Agouti paca) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama.--Ms thesis, Univ.
10 mm, and its hairs are of a more silky texture rather than being more coarse as are the surrounding agouti hairs.
Las caracteristicas de las superficies articulares observadas entre el radio y la ulna, sumados al amplio espacio interoseo, dan margen para que los movimientos de supinacion y pronacion sean posibles, como sucede en otros roedores como Agouti paca (7) y Cuniculus paca (14).
Reports were similar to descriptions in the tongue of other rodents such as the agouti [12], blind mole rat [9], and paca [7].
An agouti mouse can grow up fat and sick or lean and healthy.
Nuevos registros del "tepezcuintle" (Agouti paca) para el norte del estado de Oaxaca, Mexico.
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