With a surface area of 587 000 km 2, Madagascar is the fourth largest island on Earth. It was separated from the African continent 160 million years ago and the minimum distance from Africa is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) are chromosomal landmarks that consist of tandemly repeated sequences of ribosomal genes (rRNA). In eukaryotes, each unit is composed of three genes coding for 18S, ...

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 ...

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 ...