“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of ...

A curious mouse had taken on the role of tidying up his workspace every night, an event that seemed almost too […] The post Mouse Secretly Organizes Man's Shed Every Night appeared first on ...

How do genes and the environment come together to shape animal behavior? Both play important roles. Genes capture the evolutionary responses of prior populations to selection on behavior.

Like physical traits, behavioral traits have a heritable component, and personalities may resemble one parent’s more than the other. New research in mice finds that specific complex behaviors in these ...

“What’s fascinating about the paper is the connection between experience, epigenetics, and restructuring of the genome,” says Moshe Szyf, a geneticist at McGill University in Montreal who did not ...

When played at slow speed, the deer mouse recording sounds a little like the wooing song of a whale. Jeffrey C. Beane Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell deciphers the ultrasonic chatter, shown here plotted ...

Mice are creatures of habit and instinct. Even in the unnatural setting of a laboratory animal facility, they maintain many behaviour patterns exhibited in the wild, such as innate circadian rhythms.