The house mouse (Mus musculus) is one of the most common mammals worldwide. It can be found in all parts of the United States ...

We were cleaning our rental house and came across quite a few mouse droppings in some drawers. We think the mouse must have ...

The Mus genus has been divided into four subgenera, 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 ...

Compared with wild-derived strains, most of today's classical lab strains have limited genetic diversity and overwhelmingly originate from a single species of domestic mouse, the researchers report.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Physiology of the House Mouse ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 221 No. 4 (October 1969), p. 103 doi:10.1038 ...

The story of how (and why) the 'Great Bar Harbor fire' led to such a determined response is told in Karen Rader's interesting and valuable book on the rise of the laboratory mouse as a model ...