The mouse that went up in the Thor was a member of the order Rodentia, the genus Mus, and the species musculus, or the house mouse.
House mice are one of 38 species in the genus Mus, a member of the subfamily Murinae in the mouse family Muridae within the order Rodentia.
The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 amended the definition of animal to specifically exclude birds, rats of the genus Rattus, and mice of the genus Mus, bred for use in research".
Among the emails I received were two that took me to task for being "too soft" on the misclassification of rats of the genus Rattus, and mice of the genus Mus, for surely they are animals.
Focusing on rodents for now, it's high time to "reclassify" rats of the genus Rattus and mice of the genus Mus as animals, for they surely are, and for calling for the termination of invasive and abusive research on these sentient beings.
The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 amended the definition of animal to specifically exclude birds, rats of the genus Rattus, and mice of the genus Mus, bred for use in research" (Vol. 69, no. 108, 4 June 2004).
So, I think I have been "too soft" in the past, so now I want to call for (1) referring to rats of the genus Rattus and mice of the genus Mus, as animals, for they surely are, and for (2) the termination of invasive and abusive research on these beings.
Am I being "too soft?" Among the emails I received were two that took me to task for being "too soft" on the misclassification of rats of the genus Rattus, and mice of the genus Mus, for surely they are animals.
Orthology of all sequenced Vmn1r67 genes from taxa of the genus Mus was confirmed by Blast searches against the mouse genome [56].
m. castaneus) and four other species of the genus Mus: M. spicilegus, M. spretus, M. caroli, M. pahari with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced them.
Alternatively or in addition, the M. m. musculus allele could have been derived from an allele introgressed from another species of Mus because it is sympatric with M. spicilegus in Central Europe (see [12] for a review of the distributions of these taxa of the genus Mus).
