HHMI researchers find that a gene that blocks the differentiation of pigment-producing cells in the skin of the African striped mouse helps in generating the mouse’s characteristic light-colored ...

Unlike lab mice, both African mice and chipmunks are active during the ... In an attempt to understand not only why, but how striped rodents acquire these auspicious patterns, Hoekstra and colleagues ...

the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A darkish brown stripe occurs along the middle of the ...