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 ...

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 ...

With a surface area of 587 000 km 2, Madagascar is the fourth largest island on Earth. It was separated from the African continent 160 million years ago and the minimum distance from Africa is ...

Population dynamics and microhabitat analysis were conducted on two species of rodents, Apodemus sylvaticus (L.) and Mus musculus (L.) living in sympatry in a Mediterranean coastal maquis of Central ...

When a laboratory mouse and a house mouse come nose to nose for the first time, each one is encountering something it has never seen before. They are both Mus musculus. But the wild mouse is facing a ...

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 ...

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The house mouse, Mus musculus. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any ...