Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

Teams of mountaineering mice have shown how species adapt to localized conditions in order to thrive across diverse environments.

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to ...

In a study led by Naim Bautista, a postdoctoral researcher in Jay Storz’s lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the team took highland deer mice and their lowland cousins on a simulated ...

Deer butchers and hunters processing their own deer share that whitetail deer harvests are coming in with extremely high counts of deer ticks. One local butcher friend of mine counted more than 60 ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

Study on high-altitude deer mice reveals unique genetic adaptations for survival, offering insights into evolutionary ...