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 ...

Claim to fame: Although there are no surveys to prove it, it’s a safe assumption that the house mouse is one of the most abundant mammals on the continent. There are mice native to North America, but ...

Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) are chromosomal landmarks that consist of tandemly repeated sequences of ribosomal genes (rRNA). In eukaryotes, each unit is composed of three genes coding for 18S, ...

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.

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 ...

This report describes a new behavioristic mutation, shaker, of the house mouse, which expresses itself in the form of nervous head movements, circling and deafness, and which behaves in inheritance as ...

Mus musculus is the common house mouse. This mouse is believed to be the second most populous mammalian species on Earth, after Homo sapiens. House mice almost always live in close proximity of humans ...

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 ...

It was assumed that mice didn’t really begin hanging out with humans until the dawn of agriculture, some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago—lured to our homes and towns by kitchens full of crumbs and ...

As winter descends upon us, so does the increased likelihood of finding unwelcome houseguests scurrying across our floors—the house mouse, Mus musculus (scientific). While these tiny rodents may be a ...

Mus musculus musculus molar (above left) and Eastern European house mouse (above right) Orton says that it remains unclear exactly how the eastern house mouse came to inhabit Vinča-Belo Brdo at a time ...