This subgenus contains all of the "true old world mice" including the house mouse M. musculus — the main focus of this book ... members of the Mus subgenus is presented in figure 2.2. There is still a ...

The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a little bigger than a house mouse. It's easily distinguishable by its deer-like color, due to dense fur that's brown on ...

Pioneering discoveries in the field of immunobiology, such as the role of antibodies in fending off pathogens ... The wild forms usually have a brown coat, whereas albino laboratory strains have white ...

St Kilda's field mice can grow to twice the size of ... A second kind of mouse used to be found on the islands. The St Kilda house mouse - also larger than its mainland cousins - died out soon ...

The entire population was safely evacuated, except for 14 people who died along with 90,000 laboratory mice that had been housed in a building at the Jackson Laboratory, a then-18-year-old center ...