MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Mus musculus

Accepted taxon: Mus musculus
Taxon:	Mus musculus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	RODENTIA \| MYOMORPHA \| Muroidea \| Muridae \| Murinae \| Mus \| Mus
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Fig.1 - Ternary plot of the proximate analysis for the Mus musculus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 8, ASH (Ash contents) 9, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 33, CP (Crude Protein) 21, EE (Ether Extract) 5. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Mus musculus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	SEED	21.43	Damuth, J…
Decapoda	WHOLE	11.90	Navarrete…
Magnoliopsida	SHOOT	11.31	Grzimek,B…
Gastropoda	WHOLE	9.52	Navarrete…
Magnoliopsida	ROOT	5.95	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	STEM	5.95	Damuth, J…
Poaceae	SEED	5.56	Grzimek,B…
Insecta	WHOLE	5.16	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	4.86	Grzimek,B…
Magnoliopsida	LEAF	4.76	Damuth, J…
Rhodophycota	SHOOT	4.76	Navarrete…
Vertebrata	WHOLE	4.66	Damuth, J…
Lepidoptera	LARVAE	2.08	Grzimek,B…
Lepidoptera	WHOLE	1.39	Grzimek,B…
Oligochaeta	WHOLE	0.69	Grzimek,B…

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Mus musculus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	– Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown, Edward J. Heske, Pablo A. Marquet, Stephen R. Morton, Julian R. W. Reid, Kontantin A. rogovin, Georgy Shenbrot, 1996, 'Community Structure of Desert Small Mammals: Comparisons Across Four Continents', Ecology, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 746, Mohammad Abu Baker, Bruce D. Patterson, 2010, 'Patterns in the local assembly of Egyptian rodent faunas: Areography and species combinations', Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift fÃƒÂ¼r SÃƒÂ¤ugetierkunde, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 510-522

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Mus musculus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	g	2	2	-	-	-	7.6	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Body Mass (BM)	marine preserve of Las Cruces, Chile	g	5	5	-	-	-	46.3	-	18	Navarrete…
Body Mass (BM)	Egypt	g	386	386	-	-	-	15.03	-	-	Mohammad …
Ear Length (EL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	12.72	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	65.66	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	marine preserve of Las Cruces, Chile	mm	5	5	-	-	-	83	-	9	Navarrete…
Hind Foot Length (HFL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	18.51	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Tail Length (TL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	69.85	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Total Length (ToL)	marine preserve of Las Cruces, Chile	mm	5	5	-	-	-	194	-	42	Navarrete…
Zygomatic Breath	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	9.01	-	-	Abi-Said,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Mus musculus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
OPD (l)		n/a	3	3	-	-	-	106	-	-	Evans, Al…
OPD (u)		n/a	3	3	-	-	-	98	-	-	Evans, Al…
BB: Brain case breadth	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	8	-	-	Abi-Said,…
CBL	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	20	-	-	Abi-Said,…
HL: Head length	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	21	-	-	Abi-Said,…
HW: Head width	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	10	-	-	Abi-Said,…
IC: Interorbital constriction	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	4	-	-	Abi-Said,…
M: Mandible length (incisor included)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	11	-	-	Abi-Said,…
MDC: Mandibular cheekteeth	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	3	-	-	Abi-Said,…
MXC: Maxillary cheekteeth	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	3	-	-	Abi-Said,…
alveolar length of lower molar	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	3	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
alveolar length of upper molar	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	4	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
height of skull	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	9	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
interorbital width	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	4	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
length of diastema	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	6	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
Length of head and body	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	84	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
length of mandible	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	11	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
nasal length	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	8	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
occipitonasal length	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	22	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
total length	Kastamonu province, Turkey	mm	1	1	-	-	-	152	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…
Weight (gr.)	Kastamonu province, Turkey	g	1	1	-	-	-	16	-	-	PAMUKOČLU…

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Mus musculus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Mus musculus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Turner,J., 2004, Mammals of Australia,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Kelt,D. A., 1996, Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents, Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus rnusculus	Navarrete,S. A., 1993, Predation by Norway rats in the intertidal zone of central Chile, Marine Ecology-Progress Series	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus i	Damuth, J. 2010. ABSOLUT 6 a mammalian database compiled by the national center for ecological analysis and synthesis (NCEAS ) workshop on mammalian communities.	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. Ã¢â‚¬Å“High-Level Similarity of Dentitions in Carnivorans and Rodents.Ã¢â‚¬Â Nature 445, no. 7123 (December 13, 2006): 78Ã¢â‚¬â€œ81. doi:10.1038/nature05433.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Abu Baker,M., 2010, Patterns in the local assembly of Egyptian rodent faunas: Areography and species combinations, Mammalian Biology-Zeitschrift fÃƒÂ¼r SÃƒÂ¤ugetierkunde	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Reid,F., 2006, Peterson field guide to mammals of North America,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Navarrete,S. A., 1993, Predation by Norway rats in the intertidal zone of central Chile, Marine Ecology-Progress Series	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Abi-Said, M.R., Al-Zein, M.S. and Lebanon, B., 2022. Rodents Diversity in Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Jordan Journal of Natural History, 9(1), pp.83-88.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	PAMUKOČLU, N. and ALBAYRAK, İ., THE RODENTS OF KASTOMONU PROVINCE. Commun. Fac. Sci Univ. Ank. Series C V. 14. pp. 1-22 (1996)	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Mus musculus	Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E., Wolff, J.O., Khan, M.K., Smith, K., Allen, A.P., Bulbert, M., Buzatto, B.A., Eldridge, M.D. and Falster, D., 2022. AnimalTraits-a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data, 9(1), p.265.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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