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	Agouti - MSN Encarta
		Agouti signalling peptide, also referred to as Agouti, is a peptide which acts as an antagonist at melanocortin receptors, specifically, MC1.
		Agouti, common name for 13 species of rodents found in forested regions from southern Mexico south to Paraguay and Brazil, and in the West Indies.
		Agoutis live in underground dens, from which they usually emerge during the day, although in areas of intense human activity they may be nocturnal.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569293/Agouti.html (374 words)

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	Common agouti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confusingly, the related pacas belong to a genus called Agouti, and are sometimes placed in a separate family called Agoutidae or the subfamily Agoutinae.
		Agoutis have five front and three hind toes; the first toe is very small.
		Agoutis may grow to be up to 60 cm in length and 4 kg in weight.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dasyprocta (306 words)

	Agouti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agouti, a genus of gnawing mammals related closely to the guinea pig.
		The common agouti has the general appearance of a rabbit, but it is larger.
		The natives of Brazil and Guiana regard the flesh of the agouti as a delicacy.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol1/agouti-mammal.htm (153 words)

	Common nutrients fed to pregnant mice altered their offspring's coat color
		Just how the babies' coat colors changed without their Agouti gene being altered is the most exciting part of their research, said Jirtle.
		The scientists demonstrated that such inadvertent methylation occurred at the Agouti gene when the mice were fed the nutrients.
		Mice that over-express the Agouti protein tend to be obese and susceptible to diabetes because the protein also binds with a receptor in the hypothalamus and interferes with the signal to stop eating.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-08/dumc-cnf072903.php (1145 words)

	Agouti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agouti refers to a number of species of rodents, as well as a number of genes affecting coat coloration in several different animals.
		The term agouti refers to animals with banded, or brindled, fur — each individual guard hair is not one solid color but instead has "stripes" of (usually) fl, brown and white producing an animal which is not a solid color but appears speckled or brindled.
		The agouti gene is responsible for the bay coloring of horses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agouti (267 words)

	Acouchi
		The acouchis (Myoprocta) are rodents belonging to the agouti family.
		They are generally smaller than the common agoutis and have a very short tail (5 to 7 cm), while the common agoutis lack a tail.
		As the common agouti, acouchis are active at day and feed on fruits.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ac/Acouchi.html (103 words)

	Agouti
		Agoutis are preyed upon by larger predators, cat and dog species, coatis, and humans, who traditionally hunt them for food.
		Agoutis are strictly herbivorous and in nature live mostly on fallen fruits and nuts.
		Agoutis and the other numerous rodents in South America are the ecological equivalent of African grazing hoofed mammals such as antelope and zebras.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /agouti.htm (448 words)

	Encyclopedia: Agouti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Binomial name Agouti paca (Linnaeus, 1766) The Paca (Agouti paca) is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from East-Central Mexico to Paraguay.
		Genera Dasyprocta Myoprocta Agouti The Dasyproctidae are a family of South American rodents, comprising three genera.
		The term agouti refers to animals with banded, or brindled, fur -- each individual guard hair is not one solid color but instead has "stripes" of (usually) fl, brown and white producing an animal which is not a solid color but appears speckled or brindled.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Agouti (468 words)

	The Genetics of Shaded Silver American Shorthairs
		In wild type brown agouti mice, the agouti gene encodes an inhibitory protein, the agouti protein and is responsible for the light banded areas of the hair.
		The agouti protein is produced at the same time and when concentrations reach a certain high level, the agouti protein causes eumelanin to be down-regulated (turned down or off) and replaced with phaeomelanin, producing a brown pigment band in the case of a brown tabby.
		The agouti gene probably works similarly in cats and brown tabbies appear to produce both eumelanin and phaeomelanin similar to the wild type agouti mouse.
	my.net-link.net /~cwjohnso/genetics/shadedfin2.html (7065 words)

	The Animals of the Tropical - The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers
		In the common species distributed throughout Europe and Asia, the body may attain a length of 75 cm (30 in), with a tail half as long as the body.
		Agouti, common name for several rodents found in forested regions from southern Mexico south to Paraguay and Brazil, and in the Caribbean region.
		The larger types of agoutis range from 42 to 62 cm (16 to 24 in) in head and body length; two types of agoutis, also called acouchis, are a quarter of the size.
	www.phfawcettsweb.org /animals.htm (3158 words)

	Agouti
		Agoutis (family Dasyproctidae) or Agutis are a family of South American rodents.
		Note that the animals commonly known as agoutis are not the same as those with the scientifical name Agouti (the pacas).
		The common agoutis of the genus Dasyprocta may grow up to 60 cm in length and 4 kg in weight.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/a/ag/agouti.html (336 words)

	Agouti - where to find it in Costa Rica
		The agouti is reddish brown to fl with a white, yellow, or gray underside.
		An agouti is capable of eating seeds with very hard seed coats, because while eating it may sit on its haunches in order to watch for predators-this gives it time to work on the seed.
		Agoutis nest in homes too small for predators to enter-but this means the mother is also too large to enter the nest site.
	www.anywherecostarica.com /costa-rica-mammal/agouti.htm (589 words)

	Thames Valley Rodents \| Small Animal Encyclopaedia
		It is a common misconception that multimammate mice are rats but these rodents in my opinion have far more in common with mice and I consider them to be such.
		The wild colour is an agouti brown with a paler belly.
		Red-eyed carriers (heterozygous agoutis) have a colouration similar to that of a cinnamon but are still agouti.
	www.freewebs.com /abcexotics/multimammatemice.htm (1253 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agouti hunting is already prohibited in Brazil; restaurants in Belem, for example, once offered a variety of "cotta" (agouti) dishes at prices equivalent to those of choice filet mignon, but since the early 1970s they have been banned from serving it.
		Agouti meat is tasty, although it is usually said to fall short of the meat of the pace (see page 262) because it is leaner and gamier.
		Live agoutis have strong-smelling anal glands that may be offensive to breeders or could contaminate the meat if the animals are carelessly handled.
	www.nap.edu /books/030904295X/html/199.html (1904 words)

	Cat Fanciers: Color Genetics
		First, ticking is the result of the agouti gene (A) which causes the individual hairs to have bands of light and heavy pigmentation.
		It is fairly well accepted that the color in the agouti band of a eumelanistically-pigmented hair shaft is still eumelanin, not phaeomelanin, but it is the fact that the granules are sparse and "shredded" that gives them the yellow to orange color.
		The agouti and tabbying genes also apply to all the colors generated by the albino series (sepia, mink, and pointed colors), but space does not permit them to be listed here.
	www.fanciers.com /other-faqs/color-genetics.html (3447 words)

	Color Genetics, Color Patterns and the Pygmy Goat
		The agouti pattern is dominant to its absence, so agoutis are expected to sometimes produce solids, but two solids mated together should never produce an agouti.
		The basic pattern with the agouti is that some agoutis have two doses of the agouti gene.
		If an agouti has one agouti gene and one solid gene (as the kids from the previous matings would have to have, since they have a solid parent), the result of matings to solid colored goats would be 50% agoutis and 50% solids.
	kinne.net /pygcolor.htm (2444 words)

	Agouti -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		those of the family (Agoutis and pacas) Dasyproctidae, which, besides the (Click link for more info and facts about Common Agouti) Common Agoutis and the (Large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food) Pacas, includes the (Click link for more info and facts about Acouchi) Acouchis.
		Animals commonly displaying an agouti color phase are (Click link for more info and facts about mice) mice and (Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food) rabbits.
		The agouti gene refers to the (Click link for more info and facts about specific gene in a cat) specific gene in a cat which gives it a (Female cat) tabby (striped) fur-coat pattern; see also (Click link for more info and facts about bicolor cat) bicolor cat.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ag/Agouti.htm (316 words)

	* Agouti - (Dog): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The tail tip colour is the definitive colour and this decides what colour the cat is. The Ocicat has an agouti coat and each hair has several bands of colour and where the dark bands fall together this forms a spot...
		The Ovcharka has a range of colors from agouti gray with or without white markings to cream, fawn, red, tan, with or without white markings...
		Siberians come in a range of colors including fl, gray, red, sable and agouti, all with or without white, as well as pure white.
	www.mimihu.com /dog/agouti.html (218 words)

	Common requirements for melanocortin-4 receptor selectivity of structurally unrelated melanocortin agonist and ...
		Common requirements for melanocortin-4 receptor selectivity of structurally unrelated melanocortin agonist and endogenous antagonist, Agouti protein.In addition, this part of MC4R, when introduced in MC3R, conferred Agouti protein antagonism.
		The activity of melanocortin receptors (MCR) is regulated by melanocortin peptide agonists and by the endogenous antagonists, Agouti protein and AgRP (Agouti-related protein).
		Further mutational analysis of this region of MC4R demonstrated that Tyr(268) was required for the selective interaction with Agouti protein, because a profound loss of the ability of Agouti protein to inhibit (125)I-labeled [Nle(4),d-Phe(7)]alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) binding was observed by the single mutation of Tyr(268) to Ile.
	www.pdg.cnb.uam.es /UniPub/iHOP/gp/8697087.html (266 words)

	Coat Color Tables
		Rats were obtained by crossing a wild agouti male with domestic albino females homozygous for hooded and nonagouti.
		In the annoyance test, the noses of the rats were tickled with a fine bristle brush on a long handle, and the responses of the different colored rats were recorded.
		These sixth-generation agouti and fl rats therefore had a common genetic background, and were put through behavioral tests.
	www.ratbehavior.org /CoatColorTables.htm (463 words)

	Canine Coat Color Inheritance and Appearance - coat colors and coat color inheritance in dogs.
		The A (agouti) locus (which is the principle set of genes that govern distribution of fl pigment relative to red pigment in the coat), the various dilution loci, the brindle and fl mask loci.
		The multibanded agouti guard hair is distinctive from the dark tipped sabled hair in which fl pigment was deposited during the initial stages of hair growth but then inhibited for the balance of the growth of that hair.
		This dilution is more common in Borzoi than liver dilution since a dark grey nose in a white or silver dog is not as markedly light as is the liver nose in a white dog.
	www.batw.net /borzois.com/coat.color/coat.color.html (3342 words)

	common - definition of common by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
		Common applies to what takes place often, is widely used, or is well known: The botanist studied the common dandelion.
		common - belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
		common - of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"
	dict.thefreelibrary.com /Common (1103 words)

	Deer Run Sheep Farm: Color Genetics in Coopworth Sheep
		One mechanism for color is the Agouti locus (locus is Greek for address, and just means a specific site), which controls the distribution of white and dark fibers over the body of the animal.
		A second reasonably common Agouti pattern in the Border Leicester and Romney, as well as the Coopworth, is the blue pattern, sometimes called English blue.
		The basic components are pattern (Agouti locus), fl-based or brown-based (Brown locus), or rarely dark brown and Extension, and then the relative depth of the color (control of this is unknown).
	www.deerrunsheepfarm.com /genetics.html (1688 words)

	common terms
		Agouti banding can be seen when you rub the hair backward to the direction it is growing.
		While the background coloring is banded the darkest color usually appearing at the tips, the lighter color appearing at the base.
		This is often referred to as ticking on the Bengal cat, it is really agouti banding with wide variation.
	www.akerrsbengals.com /commonterms.htm (1258 words)

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	Common Requirements for Melanocortin-4 Receptor Selectivity of Structurally Unrelated Melanocortin Agonist and ...
		In wild-type mice, Agouti protein is not expressed in the brain.
		Agouti protein at MC4R, MC3R, and chimerae 3AB, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 4D expressed in B16G4F cells.
		Agouti protein was unable to significantly increase the
	www.jbc.org /cgi/content/full/276/2/931 (3435 words)

	Birding Trip Report to the Commonwealth of Dominica; August 1990
		Common on Antigua but on Dominica only one at LaPlaine on the 18th and a few around Roseau on the 24th.
		Common at Fort Shirley Commandants Quarters, and 1 seen at LaPlaine on the 25th.
		The only mammals present on the island are Wild Pig (scarce), Agouti (common at the Emerald Pool and the Picard valley; I saw 3 in total), Black and Brown Rat, House Mouse, opossum and 12 spp.
	www.bubo.org /trips/domini01.htm (1933 words)

	Mammals Clipart ETC
		Black Agouti "Is considerably smaller than the common agouti, being about the size of a rabbit, while the species approaches the dimensions of the hare.
		Its general proportions and form, however, are the same; but the hairs of the back and sides, instead of being annulated with various-colored rings as in that species, are nearly uniform fl, while the long hairs of the croup are perfectly so; the belly and legs are equally covered with short dark hair.
		Guib Antilope "About the size of a common deer, of a reddish-fawn color, but marked with white stripes along the back and sides, and with white spots on the haunches.
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/Animals/mammals_a-g.htm (2028 words)

	TheCatSite.com - Tabby Cats
		The tabby pattern with its different variations is the most common coat pattern in the wild.
		The tiger is a striped tabby, the leopard is a spotted tabby, and the lion is a tabby agouti.
		These are called agouti hair and are unique in their coloring.
	www.thecatsite.com /Snips/123/Tabby-Cats.html (621 words)

	Agouti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Agouti, a goo'te, the name of several rodents, forming a family by themselves.
		The common agouti, or yellow-rumped cavy, is of the size of a rabbit.
		It grunts like a pig, and is as greedy, so that where it is common it does much injury to crops.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference/agouti.htm (85 words)

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