The agouti ain’t no sewer rat: It’s actually a pivotal part of the rainforest ecosystem. Like a weird-looking squirrel, really. only without those obnoxious, oversized ears. You're trying too ...

A male agouti made a brief escape from the National Zoo Monday night. Zoo officials say "Macadamia" escaped from his outdoor enclosure behind the Small Mammal House just after 7 p.m.

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Feed adult mothers a methyl-rich or genistein-rich diet, and DNA methylation lowers expression of the agouti gene in their offspring, shifting their coat color away from the classic agouti yellow and ...

The Red-rumped Agouti (Dasyprocta leporine) is locally known as the Akuri in Guyana. The species is native to South American especially the north Amazon countries. The agouti can be found in a ...

Agouti JM8 cells take advantage of the widespread use of C57BL/6J mice for blastocyst injection by enabling visual assessment of coat color contribution and germline transmission.

The determined agouti who briefly escaped his cage at the Smithsonian National Zoo last month has died. Zoo officials say Macadamia, a South American rodent about the size of a large house cat, ...

Typically, when agouti mice breed, most of the offspring are identical to the parents: just as yellow, fat as pincushions, and susceptible to life-shortening disease. The parent mice in Jirtle and ...