Sentences with phrase «house mouse populations»

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].

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Findings indicate that house mice began embedding themselves in the Jordan Valley homes of Natufian hunter - gatherers about 15,000 years ago, and that their populations rose and fell based on how often these communities picked up and moved to new locations.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

Dynamics of a tularemia outbreak in a closely monitored free - roaming population of wild house mice

In this study, we monitored the partner preference behaviour of female and male wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) from populations.