For much of the country, as the temperatures drop, there is increased activity of mice to find a harborage area. For any food operation, or homeowner, for that matter, this means an increased ...

The Robertsonian fusion is a common chromosomal mutation among mammal species and is especially prevalent in the West European house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus. More than 40 races of the house ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Wo es Menschen gibt, da sind auch Mäuse. Auf diese Formel lässt sich die Jahrtausende alte Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Maus bringen. Kaum ein Organismus hat so vom Menschen profitiert wie die ...

On opposite sides of North America, house mice have strikingly similar adaptations to cold climates, and have independently evolved changes to genes that drive their similar behaviours and hardiness.

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Gangs of house mice have been caught attacking and killing seabirds 300 times their weight on an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. House mice (Mus musculus) were thought to pose little risk to ...

The AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals considers injection of barbiturates to be an acceptable method of euthanasia in rodents but states there is a potential for pain when administered ...

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