Is Peromyscus a Genus of Rodents
“Peromyscus”
Summary
Peromyscus is a genus of small North American rodents commonly called deer mice, encompassing species such as the white‑footed mouse (P. leucopus) and the North American deermouse (P. maniculatus). It belongs to the family Cricetidae, subfamily Neotominae, and is widely used in scientific research and disease ecology. Recent genetic studies suggest the genus is paraphyletic and may require taxonomic revision.
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- What Is Peromyscus? Evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences suggests the need for a new classification - PMC
Instead, support was found for a clade containing Habromys, Megadontomys, Neotomodon, Osgoodomys, Podomys, and Peromyscus suggesting paraphyly of Peromyscus and confirming previous observations. Our analyses indicated an early divergence of Isthmomys from Peromyscus (approximately 8 million years ago), whereas most other peromyscine taxa emerged within the last 6 million years.
- Peromyscus mice as a model for studying natural variation - PMC
Peromyscus is a genus of small North American rodents known colloquially as deer mice (Emmons, 1840). When the first Peromyscus specimens were shipped to European systematicists in the late 18th century, their resemblance to the local wood mouse prompted the designation Mus sylvaticus (Hooper, ...
- Broad diversity of host responses of the white-footed mouse Peromyscus leucopus to Borrelia infection and antigens - PMC
Peromyscus leucopus , the white-footed mouse, is one of the more abundant mammals of North America and is a major reservoir host for at least five tickborne diseases of humans, including Lyme disease and a newly-recognized form of relapsing fever. In comparison to Mus musculus, which is not a natural reservoir for any of these infections, there has been little research on experimental infections in P.
- Peromyscus - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Peromyscus are myomorph rodents belonging to the family of Cricetidae and to the subfamily Neotominae. Neotominae comprises 16 genera of New World cricetid rodents including deer mice, woodrats, and their relatives. The white-footed mouse is the most commonly used in research.
- Phylogeography within the Peromyscus maniculatus species group: Understanding past distribution of genetic diversity and areas of refugia in western North America - ScienceDirect
Here, we show that despite a wide geographic distribution, at least one lineage within Peromyscus maniculatus (P. m. gambelii) has experienced a severe decline in Southern California over the last 2,000 years. This is adding to evidence of ongoing, and divergent, recent population-level responses to climate change within Peromyscus maniculatus (Moritz et al., 2008, Myers et al., 2009, Yang et al., 2011). Although species with large geographic distributions are considered less at risk in the Anthropocene, important genetic lineages can be lost.
- Peromyscus maniculatus, North American deermouse | US Forest Service Research and Development
North American deermouse is the most widely distributed Peromyscus species [51]. North American deermice are distributed from Quebec and New Brunswick west to Yukon Territory and southeast Alaska; south to Baja California and through the Sierra Madre to southern Mexico; south in central Texas ...
- Peromyscus mice as a model for studying natural variation - PubMed
Figure 2.. North American distributions of eight Peromyscus species currently maintained as outbred laboratory stocks (based on data from Hall, 1981).
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