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SPONTANEOUS diabetes mellitus occurs rarely in domestic animals1–2. It has been found in more than 10 per cent of individuals in captive colonies of the Egyptian sand rat (Psammomys obesus)3, the Israeli spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)4, the Philippines tree shrew (Urogale everetti)5 and the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)6.
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WISE, P., WEIR, B., HIME, J. et al. Implications of Hyperglycaemia and Cataract in a Colony of Tuco-tucos (Ctenomys talarum). Nature 219, 1374–1376 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2191374b0
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