Sentences with phrase «commensal house mouse»

Thus, frequent interaction with humans and reduced predation are likely the most important factors that distinguish the study population from sympatric commensal house mouse populations [16].

The floor area of the study barn is 72 m2, resulting in 3.5 — 6 mice m − 2 in the barn, a density that is below the 10 mice m − 2 that can occur in stable, commensal house mouse populations [13].

«The competition between commensal house mice and other wild mice continued to fluctuate as humans became more mobile in arid periods and more sedentary at other times — indicating the sensitivity of local environments to degrees of human mobility and the complexity of human environmental relationships going back in the Pleistocene,» said Weissbrod, currently a research fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa.

Morphometric variations at an ecological scale: seasonal and local variations in feral and commensal house mice

Not exact matches

Much of their work focuses on the house mouse (Mus musculus), which evolved to be commensal with humans: The mice are not domesticated like dogs or sheep, but they are dependent on living in and around a human settlement.