“This is a very intriguing paper,” said Oliver Ryder, who is the Director of Conservation Genetics at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and did not participate in the work.

Cats that went feral are posing an additional threat to the Okinawa spiny rat and other rare and endangered species in the northern part of Okinawa's main island, experts say. Researchers blamed ...

In the Amami spiny rat, the Enh14 region is duplicated. The two copies of Enh14 act in concert to upregulate Sox9, which causes the differentiation of the testes. TES, Enh13 and Enh8 are other ...

A research paper published two years ago in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals how the spiny rat has evolved a new male-determining gene. The study suggests that millions ...