The last surviving population, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, went extinct about 4,000 years ago. The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a far more familiar creature, which most of us know as a ...

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 ...

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 musculus. Native to the Indian subcontinent, ...

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 ...

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 ...