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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Eutheria > Rodentia > Muridae > Arvicolinae > Sigmodontinae > Peromyscus

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Peromyscus  

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Entry terms

  • Deer Mice
  • Mice, Deer
  • Mice, White Footed
  • Mice, White-Footed
  • White-Footed Mice

Note

  • NIM when experimental animal

Scope note

  • A genus of the subfamily SIGMODONTINAE consisting of 49 species. Two of these are widely used in medical research. They are P. leucopus, or the white-footed mouse, and P. maniculatus, or the deer mouse.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010542

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