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Yersinia

Rodents are the natural reservoirs of Yersinia; less frequently, other mammals serve as the host.


Alston's brown mouse

Furthermore, some studies have examined the functional role of FOXP2 expression in S. teguina and other vocalizing rodent species.

Andreacarus voalavo

Andreacarus voalavo was named in 2007 by Ashley Dowling, Andre Bochkov, and Barry OConnor on the basis of 15 specimens found on an individual of the rodent Voalavo gymnocaudus that was collected in 1994 in the Anjanaharibe-Sud Reserve in northern Madagascar.

Asimina tetramera

The fruit provides food for many animals, including gopher tortoises, raccoons, and many rodents, including beach mice.

B. indica

Bandicota indica, the greater bandicoot rat, a species of rodent in the family Muridae

Barbary striped grass mouse

The Barbary striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys barbarus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha.

Bavarian pine vole

This rodent was previously known from only one location in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, which has since been altered by the construction of a hospital in the 1980s.

Calabazo virus

It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000.

Carletonomys

It was initially referred to the genus Noronhomys, which is currently known only from the island of Fernando de Noronha off northeastern Brazil, but in 2008 Argentinean mammalogist Ulyses Pardiñas established it as the holotype of a new genus and species of rodent in a publication in the Journal of Mammalogy.

Chalchalero vizcacha rat

The Chalchalero vizcacha rat (Salinoctomys loschalchalerosorum) is a species of caviomorph rodent in the family Octodontidae.

Chinese mole shrew

In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control reported this species can carry a version of the hantavirus which is genetically distinct from rodent hantavirus and new to science.

Coumatetralyl

Coumatetralyl is commonly used with grains and other cereals as a rodent poison in conjunction with a tracking powder to monitor feeding activity in a particular area.

Dolomedes

The largest of the New Zealand species Dolomedes schauinslandi or Rangatira spider occurs in the Chatham Islands, where it occurs on rodent-free islands where running water is rare.

Endiandra

Seed dispersal of various species in the genus is also carried out by fishes and big and small mammals as Pachyderms, Bovids, monkeys, arboreal rodents, porcupines, possums ...

Gran Canaria giant rat

This rodent is known from Holocene fossil remains found at several places on the island of Gran Canaria, the youngest of which have been dated to shortly before the beginning of the Common Era.

Kazimierz Wodzicki

Wodzicki’s other research activities included studies on Australasian Gannets at Cape Kidnappers, Rooks and the birdlife of the Waikanae estuary, as well as investigating problems with introduced rodents on Tokelau and Niue.

Lined pocket mouse

The lined pocket mouse (Chaetodipus lineatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.

Long-tailed climbing mouse

Vandeleuria, a genus of rodent from Asia with only three species

Atlantic Forest climbing mouse (Rhipidomys mastacalis), an arboreal rodent species found in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil

Cerrado climbing mouse (Rhipidomys macrurus), an arboreal rodent found in central and eastern Brazil

M. minutus

Microryzomys minutus, the montane colilargo or forest small rice rat, a rodent species found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela

Malagasy giant rat

The Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena), also known as the votsota or votsovotsa, is a nesomyid rodent found only in the Menabe region of Madagascar.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack

For much of the early 1990s, the Gamesampler, a subset of the Entertainment Pack small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as a free eleventh disk added to a ten-pack of Verbatim blank 3.5" microfloppy diskettes. Games on the sampler included Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, and Skifree. A "Best of" disk of several of the games was also available at times as a mail-in premium from Kellogg's cereals.

Mongolian five-toed jerboa

The Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa or Siberian Jerboa (Allactaga sibirica) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family.

Mouse Island

Island mouse, a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae found only in Madagascar

N. darwini

Nesoryzomys darwini, the Darwin's nesoryzomys, Darwin's rice rat or Darwin's Galápagos mouse, a rodent species

Nesoryzomys indefessus narboroughi

Nesoryzomys indefessus narboroughi is a subspecies of Nesoryzomys indefessus, a rodent in the genus Nesoryzomys, from Fernandina Island in the Galápagos Islands.

Nociception assay

It entails the injection of a dilute solution of formalin into the surface of the rodent's hindpaw, followed by the scoring of stereotypical behaviors such as flinching, licking, and biting of the affected hindpaw.

O. rex

Oecomys rex, the regal oecomys or king arboreal rice rat, a rodent species found in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and nearby parts of Venezuela and Brazil

Orthogeomys

Species of Orthogeomys are regarded as pests, one of less than 5% of rodent species classified as pests, and the history of man's attempts to control their populations reaches back into Mayan times.

Paramys

While the genus name literally means "like a mouse", it coexisted with Thisbemys, a similar rodent, thus yielding a reference to Pyramus and Thisbe.

Reigomys

In 1999, another rodent from the same group was described: Noronhomys, a recently extinct species from the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha.

Return of the Fly

Holmes kills the rodent and puts the dead agent in his car, which he sends into the Saint Lawrence River.

Roderick Bronson

Roderick T. Bronson, D.V.M. is an American pathologist and the director of the Rodent Pathology Core at Harvard Medical School.

Saint Helena earwig

It is possibly extinct due to habitat loss as well as predation by introduced rodents and an introduced centipede (Scolopendra morsitans).

Sarcofagi of Carajía

Rodents and birds of prey had disturbed the burial, after the holes had appeared in the sarcophagus.

Severtzov's jerboa

Severtzov's Jerboa (Allactaga severtzovi) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family.

Spinal osteoarthropathy

Reptiles with this condition are usually fed small rodents (e.g. mice) which are small, easy to swallow and easily injectable with vitamin supplements.

Stone louse

Loriot gave some deadpan comments on a filmed Building implosion, he mentioned the "shy rodent" to be at lunch in its natural habitat (before the explosion).

Tokudaia tokunoshimensis

The Tokunoshima spiny rat (Tokudaia tokunoshimensis) is a rodent found only on the island of Tokunoshima in Japan.

Vinogradov's jerboa

Vinogradov's Jerboa (Allactaga vinogradovi) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family.

White-footed rabbit-rat

The white-footed rabbit-rat (Conilurus albipes) is an extinct species of rodent, which was originally found in woodlands from Adelaide to Sydney, but became restricted to south-eastern Australia.

Wildlife of Peru

In January 2007, scientists discovered a new species of cloud-forest rodent of the spiny rat family (Isothrix barbarabrownae) in Manu.

Yunnan hadromys

The Yunnan hadromys (Hadromys yunnanensis) is a species of rodent from the family Muridae.


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