| WILD TYPE SPECIES | ORIGIN |
|---|---|
| P. maniculatus bairdii
(BW Stock) Deer Mouse |
Closed colony bred in captivity since 1948.
Descended from 40 ancestors wild-caught near Ann Arbor, MI. |
| P. maniculatus sonoriensis
(SM2 Stock) Sonoran Deer Mouse |
Derived from about 50 animals wild-caught by Jack Hayes in 1995 near White Mountain Research Station, CA. |
| P. polionotus subgriseus
(PO Stock) Oldfield Mouse |
Closed colony since 1952.
Derived from 21 ancestors wild-caught in Ocala National Forest, FL. High inbreeding coefficient. |
| P. leucopus
(LL Stock) White-footed or Wood Mouse |
Derived from 38 wild ancestors captured between 1982 and 1985 near Linville, NC. |
| P. californicus insignis
(IS Stock) California Mouse |
Derived from about 60 ancestors collected between 1979 and 1987 in Santa Monica Mts., CA. |
|
P. aztecus hylocetes
(AM Stock) Aztec Mouse |
Derived from animals collected on Sierra Chincua Michoacan, Mexico in 1986. |
| P. melanophrys xenerus
(XZ Stock) Plateau Mouse |
Derived from animals collected between 1970 and 1978 from Zacatecas, Mexico and bred by R. Hill. |
| P. eremicus
(EP Stock) Cactus Mouse |
Originated from 10-12 animals collected at Tucson, AZ in 1993. |
| P. maniculatus X P. polionotus
F1 Hybrids |
Available upon request. |
| Coat Colors | ORIGINAL SOURCE |
|---|---|
| Albino c/c | Sumner's albino deer mice (Sumner, 1922) |
| Ashy ahy/ahy | Wild-caught in Oregon ~ 1960 (Teed et al., 1990) |
| Black (Non-agouti) a/a | Horner's black mutant (Horner et al., 1980) |
| Blonde bln/bln | Mich. State U. colony (Pratt and Robbins, 1982) |
| 2Brown b/b | Huestis stocks (Huestis and Barto, 1934) |
| California blonde cfb/cfb | Santa Cruz I., Calif., stock (Roth and Dawson, 1996) |
| Dominant spotting S/+ | Wild caught in Illinois (Feldman, 1936) |
| Golden nugget bgn/bgn
[in P. leucopus] |
Wild caught in Mass. (Horner and Dawson, 1993) |
| Ivory i/i | Wild caught in Oregon (Huestis, 1938) |
| Platinum plt/plt | Barto stock at U. Mich. (Dodson et al., 1987) |
| 2 Silver sil/sil | Huestis stock (Huestis and Barto, 1934) |
| Tan streak tns/tns | Clemson U. stock from N.C. (Wang et al., 1993) |
| White-belly non-agouti aw/aw | Egoscue's "non-agouti" (Egoscue, 1971) |
| Wide-band agouti ANb/a | Natural polymorphism. U. Mich. (McIntosh, 1954) |
| Other Mutations and Variants | ORIGIN |
| Alcohol dehydrogenase negative Adho/Adho | South Carolina BW stock (Felder, 1975) |
| Alcohol dehydrogenase positive Adhf/Adhf | South Carolina BW stock (Felder, 1975) |
| Boggler bgl/bgl | Blair's P. m. blandus stock (Barto, 1955) |
| Cataract-webbed cwb/cwb | From Huestis stocks (Anderson and Burns, 1979) |
| Epilepsy epl/epl | U. Michigan artemisiae stock (Dice, 1935) |
| Hairless-1 hr-1/hr-1 | Sumner's hairless mutant (Sumner, 1924) |
| Hairless-2 hr-2/hr-2 | Egoscue's hairless mutant (Egoscue, 1962) |
| Juvenile ataxia ja/ja | U. Michigan stock (Van Ooteghem, 1983) |
| Enzyme variants | Wild type stocks given above provide a reservoir for several enzyme and other protein variants. (Dawson et al., 1983) |
Other Resources of the Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center
Limited numbers of other stocks, species, mutants and variants are on hand, or under development, but are not currently available for distribution. For additional information or details about any of these mutants or stocks, contact: Janet Crossland, Colony Manager.
Preserved or frozen specimens of types listed.
Tissues, whole blood or serum of types listed.
Flat skins of mutant coat colors or wild-type any of the species listed.
Reference library of more than 2400 reprints of research articles and reports on Peromyscus. Articles can be photocopied and mailed.