This subgenus contains all of the "true old world mice" including the house mouse M. musculus — the main focus of this book ... members of the Mus subgenus is presented in figure 2.2. There is still a ...

The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), sometimes called the field mouse, is a little bigger than a house mouse. It's easily distinguishable by its deer-like color, due to dense fur that's brown ...

The wood-mouse, also known as the long-tailed field mouse, is a native mammal, unlike the house mouse, a newer arrival. Wood mice avoid predation by staying out of sight, hiding away in small ...

(Field mice is a colloquial term for deer mice ... The species commonly seen inside people’s homes is the house mouse, which doesn’t carry the hantavirus pathogen. At first glance, it ...

St Kilda's field mice can grow to twice the size of ... A second kind of mouse used to be found on the islands. The St Kilda house mouse - also larger than its mainland cousins - died out soon ...