Evidence: Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) nutrition
Source: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-08-01. Queries covered nutrient requirements, diet formulation, supplementation and deficiency for Meriones unguiculatus. The cluster returns 0 representative nutrition studies with abstracts below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.
Studies
*No pet-relevant studies remain in this cluster after the 2026-08-24 hygiene pass; removed entries are recorded in the cleaning log below. Care guidance in the manual is carried by first-hand welfare-code and veterinary-manual topics, not by this evidence cluster.*
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_gerbil_nutrition_2026-08-01.txt (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-08-01).
License & attribution
Mixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY / CC BY-NC / CC BY-NC-ND) studies are reproduced verbatim with attribution under their specific CC license; non-Open-Access studies are paraphrased as derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten). Original records:
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42004407/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41772982/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41339017/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41683765/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41947179/
Cleaning removal log (2026-08-05, codebuddy)
PMID 41959669 — breastfeeding/weaning carbon isotopes in 4 rodent species, not gerbil (gerbil not named) PMID 42174017 — calyx-of-Held/MNTB synaptic study, not gerbil-specific (gerbil not named) PMID 41901721 — Acomys cahirinus seurati (spiny mouse, different rodent) Leishmania reservoir, not gerbil PMID 41776390 — labeled off-topic/mis-clustered: mouse gastric-cancer models, not gerbil nutrition PMID 42223768 — Hepatozoon in brown rat and edible dormouse (different rodents), not gerbil PMID 41495641 — labeled off-topic/mis-clustered: human NAT2 comparative bioinformatics, not gerbil nutrition PMID 42116386 — Karimabad virus public-health review (humans/animals), not gerbil PMID 42004407 — wild ecology (sympatric gerbil gut microbiota), not pet nutrition (removed 2026-08-24, kimi) PMID 41772982 — lab neuroprotection model (sweet potato petiole), not pet nutrition (removed 2026-08-24, kimi) PMID 41339017 — lab ischemia model (transient forebrain ischemia), not pet nutrition (removed 2026-08-24, kimi) PMID 41683765 — lab supplementation model (taurine), not pet nutrition (removed 2026-08-24, kimi) PMID 41947179 — wildlife disease ecology (flea dynamics), not pet nutrition (removed 2026-08-24, kimi)