of which one is also called Mus. This subgenus contains all of the "true old world mice" including the house mouse M. musculus — the main focus of this book. A humorous view of mouse evolution is ...

The house mouse (Mus musculus) is one of the most common mammals worldwide. It can be found in all parts of the United States and Southern Canada. Adults are about five to seven inches long ...

We discovered a runted 10-week-old juvenile male mouse in our animal research facility at the Children's Cancer Research Institute in San Antonio, TX. For breeding purposes, we classified the ...

By comparison, the body of the common house mouse (Mus musculus) is only around 10 centimetres long, its tail contributing more to the overall length. However, despite outward appearances, the small ...

But what do these models reveal about us? Mus musculus House mouse Commonly used to study genetic principles and human disease Rattus norvegicus Brown rat Commonly used to study genetic principles ...

However in most of the developed world the domestic cat is almost certainly the definitive host of greatest evolutionary significance, and small mammals such as Mus musculus (house mouse) the main ...