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

The deer mouse is nocturnal, and is most active at twilight ... Identification and recent distribution of white-footed mice (Peromyscus) in New England. Journal of Mammalogy, 54:41-49.

Virginia Tech researchers discovered six new rodent carriers of hantavirus and identified U.S. hotspots, highlighting the ...

Then another, and another. After they’d analyzed dozens of animals, the researchers realized that about 1 in 10 animals in their Peromyscus mouse colony don’t have hooks. It was the perfect ...

"In North America, Peromyscus maniculatus, the deer mouse, is the most common carrier but our study also revealed that other rodent species have a higher prevalence of hantavirus, which changes ...

Paanwaris Paansri, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation and co-author of the study, said: ‘In North America, Peromyscus maniculatus, the deer mouse, is the most ...

“In North America, Peromyscus maniculatus, the deer mouse, is the most common carrier but our study also revealed that other rodent species have a higher prevalence of hantavirus, which changes ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

Clark gave the mouse to scientists at the University of ... two species of the genus Peromyscus, were calling all around her, perhaps even mumbling about her presence. On some nights, she thought ...

By crossing two mouse species that normally do not interbreed ... By conducting a complex series of “backcrosses” between the two Peromyscus species and their resulting hybrids, Tilghman and her ...