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 ...

Above photo: House mouse, Mus musculus, from Purdue Extension publication AS-692-W The most common rodent pest in structures is the house mouse, Mus musculus.House mice exist in all 50 states of the U ...

Of the many mouse species that inhabit North America, only a few actually find their way into homes. Here's how to recognize ...

Above photo: House mouse, Mus musculus, from Purdue Extension publication AS-692-W The most common rodent pest in structures is the house mouse, Mus musculus.House mice exist in all 50 states of the U ...

The laboratory mice used in science are all descendants of the house mouse, Mus musculus.The species can be divided into three subspecies, two of which live in Europe: the Western house mouse (Mus ...

IT is well known that, in man, mixoploidy (chromosome mosaicism) of normal and abnormal cell lines leads to a dilution of the abnormal phenotype, for example, in Down's and Turner's syndromes ...

Good pest management starts at home, sometimes right under our noses. A friend’s mother had the dubious reputation of being able to smell a mouse in the house before she saw it; I, unfortunately ...

The genome of the house mouse (Mus musculus) has a particular haplotype, called the t haplotype, that gets passed on to offspring more than 95 percent of the time, instead of the typical 50 percent.

During its gestation, the house mouse starts out as a single fertilized cell and three weeks later is ready to enter the world as a free-living pup composed of more than 500 million cells.

From "Tom and Jerry" to "The Farmer in the Dell," pop culture is full of mice that love cheese. In fact, there's even a mouse mascot with the food in his name: Chuck E. Cheese. But do real mice ...