Biology, breeding, husbandry and diseases of the captive Egyptian fat-tailed jird (Pachyuromys duprasi natronensis)

Lab Animal

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 256-261

  Felt, Stephen A ^a,b   Hussein, Hussein I ^a   Mohamed Helmy, Ibrahim Helmy ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERIONES; PACHYUROMYS DUPRASI; RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GERBIL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 48849097441     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0608-256     Document Type: Review

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