Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

City mouse or country mouse? I collect mice from Philly homes to study how they got so good at urban living

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par Megan Phifer-Rixey, Assistant Professor of Biology, Drexel University

Dusty barns, gleaming stables and damp basements. These are all places where you might find a house mouse – or a member of my research team.

I’m an evolutionary biologist, and my lab at Drexel University studies wild house mice. With help from Philly residents, we are collecting mice from high-rises and row homes to learn more about the impacts of city living on house mice. In short, we want to know whether there is any scientific basis to “The…

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