Classic Peromyscus Papers

classic books

  1. Osgood, W. H. Revision Of The Mice Of The American Genus Peromyscus. (Kessinger Publishing, 1909).
  2. King, J. A. Biology of Peromyscus (Rodentia). (American Society of Mammalogists, 1968).
  3. Kirkland, G. L. L., J.N. Advances in the Study of Peromyscus (Rodentia). (Texas Tech University Press, 1989).

overviews of Peromyscus as a study system

  1. Dewey, M. J. & Dawson, W. D. Deer mice: "The Drosophila of North American mammalogy". Genesis 29, 105-109 (2001).
  2. Bedford, N. L. & Hoekstra, H. E. Peromyscus mice as a model for studying natural variation. Elife 4: e06813, doi:10.7554/eLife.06813 (2015).

Peromyscus phenotype vs environment:

  1. Dice, L. R. (1940). Ecologic and genetic variability within species of Peromyscus. The American Naturalist, 74(752), 212-221.
  2. Blair, W. F. (1950). Ecological factors in speciation of Peromyscus. Evolution, 4(3), 253-275.

husbandry papers

  1. Crossland, J. P., M. J. Dewey, S. C. Barlow, P. B. Vrana, M. R. Felder, and G. J. Szalai. 2014. Caring for Peromyscus spp. in research environments. Lab Anim., 43:162-166.
  2. Pritchett-Corning, K. R., H. E. Peery, J. P. Crossland, H. M. Wyatt, M. Stuart, and C. E. Mothersill. 2015. Use of neonatal fostering to remove Helicobacter spp. from deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). J. Amer. Assoc. Lab. Anim. Sci., 54:439-444.

papers highlighting interesting Peromyscus behaviors

  1. Parental behavior


    2. Dudley, D. Paternal behavior in the California mouse, Peromyscus californicus. Behav Biol 11, 247-252, doi:10.1016/s0091-6773(74)90433-7 (1974)n https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4847526

  2. Climbing behavior


    3. Horner, B. E. Arboreal adaptations of Peromyscus, with special reference to use of the tail. Contrib. Lab. Vert. Biol. 1954, 1-84.
    Thompson, D. B. Different Spatial Scales of Adaptation in the Climbing Behavior of Peromyscus Maniculatus: Geographic Variation, Natural Selection, and Gene Flow. Evolution 44, 952-965, doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1990.tb03817.x (1990).https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28569032

  3. Vocalization


    4. Kalcounis-Rueppell, M. C., Metheny, J. D. & Vonhof, M. J. Production of ultrasonic vocalizations by Peromyscus mice in the wild. Front Zool 3, 3, doi:10.1186/1742-9994-3-3 (2006) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507093
    Hart, F. M. & King, J. A. Distress vocalizations of young in two subspecies of Peromyscus maniculatus. J Mammal 47, 287-293 (1966). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=5930720

  4. Butterfly predation


    5. Glendinning, J. I., Mejia, A. A. & Brower, L. P. Behavioral and ecological interactions of foraging mice (Peromyscus melanotis) with overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico. Oecologia 75, 222-227, doi:10.1007/BF00378602 (1988). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28310839

  5. Burrowing


    6. Dawson, W.D., Lake, C.E. & Schumpert, S.S. Inheritance of Burrow Building in Peromyscus. Behavior Genetics 18, 371-382 (1988). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3219114