Most of our understanding of the mammalian immune system comes from detailed studies of inbred, laboratory-adapted strains of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, but whether such responses are ...

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.

Scientists studied three varieties of house mice and found that those who had lived alongside humans the longest were also the craftiest at solving food puzzles. Christopher Intagliata reports. If you ...

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 ...

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

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 ...

Wo es Menschen gibt, da sind auch Mäuse. Auf diese Formel lässt sich die Jahrtausende alte Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Maus bringen. Kaum ein Organismus hat so vom Menschen profitiert wie die ...

Natürlich Mäuse sind nicht kleine Menschen mit ein bisschen mehr Haar, die sind auch unterschiedlich an mehreren Stellen aber die sind vergleichbar genug, dass für eine Menge Krankheiten die ...

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