To most people, all small rodents are virtually indistinguishable from each other, and as such, they are lumped together and considered to be mice of one kind or another. In Webster’s Third New ...

1. Social structure of hourse mouse (Mus musculus L.) populations in quarter-acre (0.1-ha) enclosures was organized differently with respect to centralized and decentralized food (corn) sites.

Most of our understanding of the mammalian immune system comes from detailed studies of inbred, laboratory-adapted strains of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, but whether such responses are ...

Scientists have revealed the genetic structure and diversity, and inferred the population history, of the wild house mouse across Europe and Asia. The house mouse, Mus musculus, is the most common ...

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

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