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The Evolution of Polymorphic Hybrid Incompatibilities in House Mice
... of house mice, Mus musculus domesticus and Mus musculus ...of mice, selection against deleterious interactions appears to have un- expectedly driven introgression at loci involved in epistatic hybrid ...
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X–Y Interactions Underlie Sperm Head Abnormality in Hybrid Male House Mice
... House mice in the Mus musculus species complex are a classic mammalian model for the genetics of postzygotic reproductive isolation. Three lineages, M. musculus mus- culus, M. musculus domesticus, and M. ...
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Conflict in the communal nest: investigating female competition in house mice
... female house mice in this ...laboratory mice, with pups born five or seven days apart displaying more affiliative behaviour; conversely pups born three days apart are more likely to attack during ...
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The Contribution of the Y Chromosome to Hybrid Male Sterility in House Mice
... Whether the M. m. domesticus Y chromosome is impor- tant for hybrid male sterility is an open question. In crosses in which M. m. musculus is represented by the wild-derived inbred strain PWD/PhJ, X-linked sterility does ...
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No speed dating please! Patterns of social preference in male and female house mice
... We monitored the partner preference behaviour of wild house mice ( M. m. domesticus ). Over five days and six nights, we allowed each of 24 males and 24 females to associate with their preferred partner ...
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Population dynamics of house mice without mammalian predators and competitors
... invasive house mice (Mus musculus) after larger introduced mammals are controlled or ...When house mice are the only mammals remaining in these biodiversity sanctuaries, they may reach a high ...
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X-Chromosome Control of Genome-Scale Recombination Rates in House Mice
... ABSTRACT Sex differences in recombination are widespread in mammals, but the causes of this pattern are poorly understood. Previously, males from two interfertile subspecies of house mice, Mus musculus ...
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Female nursing partner choice in a population of wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)
... Free-living female house mice were ‘choosy’ in their decision to nurse communally, as they did not always communally nurse when they had the opportunity. Adult females shared nest boxes and regularly met ...
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Impacts of invasive house mice on post-release survival of translocated lizards
... Invasive house mice (Mus musculus) have detrimental effects on biodiversity, but their impacts can be difficult to detect and are often ...of mice for ...of mice (second cohort: phi = ...but ...
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A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS, IN COMPOUNDS, OF SEVEN GENETICALLY SIMILAR LETHAL T ALLELES FROM POPULATIONS OF WILD HOUSE MICE
... DUNN, 1958 Effects on embryonic development of a group of genetically similar lethal alleles derived from different populations of wild house mice. The embryological effects of[r] ...
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The Effects of a Natural Increase in Food-Supply on a Wild Population of House Mice
... that house mice (Mus musculus ...of mice. However, until mice are shown to eat Nothofagus seeds, and that these seeds are nutritious, this relationship cannot be said to be ...
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Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Is Disrupted in Sterile Hybrid Male House Mice
... lab mice are subfertile, produce female-biased litters, and ex- hibit disruption of PSCR and widespread overexpression of X-linked postmeiotic genes, including the multicopy Slx and Slxl1 genes that are closely ...
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The Recombination Landscape in Wild House Mice Inferred Using Population Genomic Data
... Furthering our understanding of the evolution of the re- combination landscape in house mice would be helped by comparing fine-scale rates in the different subspecies. In this study, we have assumed that ...
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A disparity between locomotor economy and territory holding ability in male house mice
... In house mice (Mus musculus), the importance of fighting ability for increasing reproductive fitness as well as the high daily costs of locomotion are expected to generate selection on these two potentially ...
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Strategies for detection of house mice on a recently invaded island
... with house mice (Mus musculus) to investigate the effectiveness of selected mammal surveillance practices, including detection device choice, duration of deployment period, and device ...of mice, ...
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Genetics and Evolution of Hybrid Male Sterility in House Mice
... House mice provide a powerful system for understanding the evolution of reproductive isolation during the early stages of ...hybrid mice indicate that ...
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Mechanisms and contexts of kin recognition in female house mice
... laboratory mice to study kin recognition, there are also a number of ...laboratory mice and house mice can be subtly different, for example laboratory mice often show reduced aggression ...
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The Pace of Hybrid Incompatibility Evolution in House Mice
... in house mice follows the snowball predic- tion. House mice (Mus musculus) are a model system for un- derstanding the genetics of speciation and feature an expansive genetic and genomic ...
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Baculum morphology predicts reproductive success of male house mice under sexual selection
... male house mice under conditions of intense postcopulatory sexual selection, which is consistent with relatively high intraspecific variation [16,17] and positive allometry [17,18] in this aspect of penile ...
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Viral Diversity of House Mice in New York City
... in mice from the Bronx or Brooklyn sites; however, the remaining three sites in Manhattan and Queens were positive with prevalences ranging between 8% (Q1) and 22% (M3) (Table ...Juvenile mice were the most ...
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