House mouse (Mus musculus) is a cosmopolitan pest in agricultural facilities, commodity stores and rural urban environments. It regularly controlled by anticoagulant-based baits. Since the number of registered active ingredients limited, producers are trying to develop new formulations with increased tamper-resistance, attractiveness palatability. Reliable economical methods for laboratory scre...

In the context of an imitation game, 12- and 18-month-old infants saw an adult do such things as make a toy mouse hop across a mat (with sound effects). In one condition (House), the adult ended by placing the mouse in a toy house, whereas in another condition (No House) there was no house present at the final location. Infants at both ages usually simply put the mouse in the house (ignoring th...

Three subspecies of Mus musculus have been recognized in Iran so far. The house mouse (genus0T 0T2TMus2T, species0T 0T2TMus musculus2T) are recognized for their highly conserved morphology and chromosomal structure, but some chromosomal characters offer accurate taxonomic markers in this species that has been shown any unambiguous diagnostic morphological traits. Among the chromosomal character...

ruses co-evolved with their animal hosts, such as SEOV with rats and HTNV with striped mice, but when their animal hosts expanded their territory, hantavirus had more chance to infect other susceptible rodents and expanded their animal hosts. Both Asian house shrews and house mice are closely associated with humans by living inside and outside of human houses in China. The Asian house shrew and...