In a lab at Queen Mary University of London, a mouse was born whose existence defied conventional biology. It carried within ...

musculus — the main focus of this book. A humorous view of mouse evolution is reproduced in figure 2.1, and a more serious phylogenetic tree with all extant members of the Mus subgenus is presented in ...

Mouse phenotyping studies analyse biological properties, such as the evolution of disease symptoms, in mice that have had a specific gene modified, added or removed. “We live in an ageing ...