A male African striped mouse tends his pups. A gene called Agouti, which was previously known to play a role in the ...

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A new study suggests that the Agouti gene in the brains of male African striped mice can act as a molecular "switch," making ...

Male caregiving is rare. Of the nearly 6,000 mammalian species, fewer than 5% of fathers stick around to raise their own young. Most are even instinctively hostile. Even among the mammals that pitch ...

Ten years ago, when Prof. Neville Pillay first started investigating the semi-desert-dwelling African striped mouse or Rhabdomys in the Goegap Nature Reserve near Springbok, Northern Cape, he never ...

Lindelani Makuya receives funding from CNRS. She works for the CNRS. Antoine Stier is affiliated with the CNRS and the University of Turku Carsten Schradin receives funding from the CNRS, CNRS SE-Life ...

A new study suggests that the Agouti gene in the brains of male African striped mice can act as a molecular "switch," making them caring or violent toward their young. When you purchase through links ...