scholarly journals On the saliva proteome of the Eastern European house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) focusing on sexual signalling and immunity

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Stopka ◽  
Barbora Kuntová ◽  
Petr Klempt ◽  
Leona Havrdová ◽  
Martina Černá ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
House Mouse ◽  
Mus Musculus ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus ◽  
Sexual Signalling

New insights into the invasive process of the eastern house mouse (Mus musculus musculus): Evidence from the burnt houses of Chalcolithic Romania

The Holocene ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1195-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Cucchi ◽  
A. Bălăşescu ◽  
C. Bem ◽  
V. Radu ◽  
J.-D. Vigne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
House Mouse ◽  
Small Mammals ◽  
Mus Musculus ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus ◽  
Copper Metallurgy ◽  
Trading Networks

The house mouse invasion of the European continent has crucial implications for our understanding of the synanthropization process of European small mammals during the Holocene. Mice remains collected from a Chalcolithic burnt house in southern Romania, provided a unique opportunity to document which of the two house mouse subspecies was the commensal taxa of the late Neolithic Romania and question the factors of its invasive process. To obtain the subspecific status of the Mus remains, we performed molar shape analysis with geometric morphometrics, using 160 specimens sampling the extant Eastern European Mus taxa as modern comparatives. Along with an overwhelming majority of eastern house mice ( Mus musculus musculus) living constantly in the Chalcolithic house, indigenous small mammals (common hamster, field mice, voles and white toothed shrews) were also occupying the settlement sporadically, highlighting the antiquity of the synanthropisation of European small mammals. This secured occurrence of the eastern house mouse in late Neolithic Romania, led us to propose two testable research hypotheses: first, an eastern house mouse commensalism center in Eastern Europe happening during the sixth millennium bc, when neolithization reached the natural distribution of free living populations of Mus musculus musculus in the Pontic steppes of Ukraine; second, new trajectories of trading networks, stimulated by copper metallurgy around the fifth millennium bc, having allowed long-distance translocation of the commensal eastern house mouse from Eastern to Southern Europe Neolithic settlements.

scholarly journals Host subspecific viral strains in European house mice: Murine cytomegalovirus in the Eastern (Mus musculus musculus) and Western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus)

Virology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 521 ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Čížková ◽  
Stuart J.E. Baird ◽  
Jana Těšíková ◽  
Sebastian Voigt ◽  
Ďureje Ľudovít ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
House Mouse ◽  
Mus Musculus ◽  
Murine Cytomegalovirus ◽  
House Mice ◽  
Mus Musculus Domesticus ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus

scholarly journals On the tear proteome of the house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) in relation to chemical signalling

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romana Stopkova ◽  
Petr Klempt ◽  
Barbora Kuntova ◽  
Pavel Stopka
Keyword(s):  
House Mouse ◽  
Mus Musculus ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Sexual Dimorphisms ◽  
Major Urinary Proteins ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus ◽  
Chemical Signalling ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Secreted Peptides ◽  
Odorant Binding

Mammalian tears are produced by lacrimal glands to protect eyes and may function in chemical communication and immunity. Recent studies on the house mouse chemical signalling revealed that major urinary proteins (MUPs) are not individually unique inMus musculus musculus. This fact stimulated us to look for other sexually dimorphic proteins that may—in combination with MUPs—contribute to a pool of chemical signals in tears. MUPs and other lipocalins including odorant binding proteins (OBPs) have the capacity to selectively transport volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in their eight-stranded beta barrel, thus we have generated the tear proteome of the house mouse to detect a wider pool of proteins that may be involved in chemical signalling. We have detected significant male-biased (7.8%) and female-biased (7%) proteins in tears. Those proteins that showed the most elevated sexual dimorphisms were highly expressed and belong to MUP, OBP, ESP (i.e., exocrine gland-secreted peptides), and SCGB/ABP (i.e., secretoglobin) families. Thus, tears may have the potential to elicit sex-specific signals in combination by different proteins. Some tear lipocalins are not sexually dimorphic—with MUP20/darcin and OBP6 being good examples—and because all proteins may flow with tears through nasolacrimal ducts to nasal and oral cavities we suggest that their roles are wider than originally thought. Also, we have also detected several sexually dimorphic bactericidal proteins, thus further supporting an idea that males and females may have adopted alternative strategies in controlling microbiota thus yielding different VOC profiles.

Some new and little-known mites of the genus Myocoptes Claparède (Acarina: Listophoridae)

Parasitology ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 275-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Radford
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
House Mouse ◽  
Mus Musculus ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus

Claparède (1869) established the genus Myocoptes for a mite, found upon a house-mouse (Mus musculus musculus L., 1758), which had been described by C. L. Koch (1844) under the name Sarcoptes musculinus (syn. Listrophorus larisi Vorobiov, 1938). In this genus sexual dimorphism is pronounced; the female has legs iii and iv modified and provided with processes with which it can maintain a firm grasp on the fur of its host. In the male this modification is only present on legs iii.

scholarly journals The origin of a double insertion of homogeneously staining regions in the house mouse (Mus musculus musculus)

Heredity ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
S I Agulnik ◽  
P M Borodin ◽  
I P Gorlov ◽  
T Yu Ladygina ◽  
S D Pak
Keyword(s):  
House Mouse ◽  
Mus Musculus ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus

scholarly journals Dual roles of tear lipocalins as ‘chemical signalling’ and ‘toxic waste disposal’ systems of the house mouse

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Stopka ◽  
Petr Klempt ◽  
Barbora Kuntova ◽  
Romana Stopkova
Keyword(s):  
House Mouse ◽  
Toxic Waste ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Sexual Dimorphisms ◽  
Mus Musculus Musculus ◽  
Chemical Signalling ◽  
Sexual Signalling ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Odorant Binding

Mammalian tears are produced by lacrimal glands to protect eyes and to function in chemical communication and immunity. However, excess tears flow through nasolacrimal ductsto nasal tissues, and via the nasopharyngeal duct to the oral cavity where digestion starts. Tears contain soluble proteins that attack pathogens, as well as proteins from the lipocalin family that – with their capacity to transport volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in their eight-stranded beta barrel – are involved in sexual signalling and may also transport toxic VOCs towards digestion. Therefore, we generated the tear proteome of the wild-living house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) and detected a total of 719 proteins in tears with 20% being sexually dimorphic. Those proteins that showed the most elevated sexual dimorphisms are VOC transporters from the recently discovered odorant binding protein (OBP), and major urinary protein (MUP) families, thus demonstrating that tears have the potential to elicit sex-specific signals in combination with different lipocalins. Moreover, some tear lipocalins are non-dimorphic – with MUP20/Darcin, LCN11, and LCN13 being good examples – thus suggesting that they are involved in other biological processes besides sexual signalling.

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