Rodents are the subjects of the overwhelming majority of laboratory animal studies, and most laboratory rodents are nocturnal. The availability of a suitable diurnal rodent would provide a more ...

Specialized chemosensory signals elicit innate social behaviors in individuals of several vertebrate species, a process that is mediated via the accessory olfactory system (AOS). The AOS comprising ...

Gerbils are part of a subfamily (Gerbillinae) within Muridae (murids), which also includes whistling rats and Old World rats and mice. In other words, the terms hamster and gerbil each encompass ...

Eutherian mammals have characteristic lengths of gestation that are key for reproductive success, but relatively little is known about the processes that determine the timing of parturition, the ...