Due to its non-gregarious nature, the gray mouse lemur, like other nocturnal lemurs, primarily defends itself from predators using avoidance strategies, although group defense through the use of alarm calls and predator mobbing has been observed in this species.
When on the ground, either to catch insects or cross short open areas, mouse lemurs hop like a frog.
Faced to a moderate food shortage, mouse lemurs under summer-like long-days would respond to food deprivation like all typical mammals, by decreasing protein synthesis and elevating protein catabolism, resulting in net nitrogen loss [40], [41].
The depicted mouse lemur Wdnm1-like sequence maps within Ensembl database micMur1, GeneScaffold_1067 positions 49762-to-53887, reverse orientation.
When moving through the trees, giant mouse lemurs scurry rapidly like mouse lemurs, unlike dwarf lemurs, which use more deliberate movement.
Unlike mouse lemurs and more like dwarf lemurs, giant mouse lemurs have a prominant anterior lower premolar (P2).
These results supported our choice of using the Affymetrix HG-U133 Plus 2.0 human microarray to investigate the pattern of gene expression in the temporal cortex of young adult, old and "AD-like" grey mouse lemurs (Table 1).
Before investigating the possible differences of gene expression in the temporal cortex of young adult, elderly and "AD-like" grey mouse lemurs, we compared the anatomical shape of the brains from the three groups (Fig. 1).
Like humans, mouse lemurs sometimes develop amyloid brain plaques and other Alzheimer's-like symptoms as they age.
Like mouse lemurs, the ears are large and membranous.
