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 ...

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 ...

If you ever get a house, “eventually you get a mouse”—or so Ogden Nash once wrote. And science seems to be catching up with poetry. The standard thinking until now has been that the house mouse, Mus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barriers to gene flow between naturally hybridizing taxa reveal the initial stages of speciation. Reduced hybrid fertility is a common feature of reproductive barriers separating recently diverged ...

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 ...