The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a little bigger than a house mouse. It's easily ...

The range is transcontinental, and from Alaska to southern Mexico, except for the southeastern U.S. In the Adirondacks the deer mouse is wide spread, occurring in all terrestrial habitats at all ...

By conducting a complex series of “backcrosses” between the two Peromyscus species and their resulting hybrids, Tilghman and her colleagues sought to determine whether disruption of imprinting affects ...

But now that a dozen years have passed since deceptively cute deer-mice invaded some of those cabins' foam insulation, then ...

I am conducting feeding trials to determine minimum nitrogen requirements for white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), and studying the role of dietary nitrogen on their growth and reproduction. I ...

Hantavirus vectors primarily include various rodent species such as the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), and white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus ...

As a humanist, Virginia Hayssen’s scholarship explores cultural bias in reproductive biology. As with other aspects of life, the words and images we use are, consciously or unconsciously, infused with ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

A new study has uncovered significant differences in how male and female mice process threats, even as they exhibit similar behavioral responses. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with a ...

How do we know if a species is heading towards extinction? Demographics help us understand the size, status, and behavior of populations. Broadly defined, demography is the study of the ...