Science news articles about 'deer mouse'

A fast-evolving deer mouse is one of the best examples yet studied of natural selection in action, say scientists.

... parasite used in the study was an indirect parasite, meaning that it cannot be passed from one mouse to another. A deer mouse can only get infected from a source other than deer mice. That way Schwanz ...

... the disease was caused by a previously unknown type of hantavirus, carried primarily by the deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus. "These mice are mostly solitary, so when they come into contact they ...

... that the different variants of a single gene determines whether a deer mouse is dark or pale -- a small difference with huge survival implications for a species widely hunted by owls, ...