title: Biology, breeding, husbandry and diseases of the captive Egyptian fat-tailed jird (Pachyuromys duprasi natronensis).
abstract: The fat-tailed jird, a small North African rodent with a distinctive club-shaped tail, is a convenient research subject and an emerging model for Old World leishmaniasis. The authors present the natural history and biology of the Egyptian fat-tailed jird and provide guidelines for the breeding and husbandry of this species on the basis of their experience raising a colony from wild stock in Cairo, Egypt. They also discuss the diseases they encountered in wild and captive-bred jirds.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, School of Medicine, Comparative Medicine Department, Veterinary Service Center, Stanford, CA 94305-5410, USA. felt@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Felt
authors.forename: Hussein I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Hussein
authors.forename: Ibrahim-Helmy
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Mohamed Helmy
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods*; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001835:Body Weight; D001947:Breeding; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D005849:Gerbillinae / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010273:Parasitic Diseases, Animal; D012376:Rodent Diseases; D014730:Veterinary Medicine