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white-footed mouse

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white-foot·ed mouse  (hwtftd, wt-)
n.
A semidesert mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) of New Mexico that feeds on crop-damaging insects.
white-footed mouse
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various mice of the genus Peromyscus, esp P. leucopus, of North and Central America, having brownish fur with white underparts: family Cricetidae See also deer mouse
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Noun1.white-footed mouse - American woodland mouse with white feet and underpartswhite-footed mouse - American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts
Peromyscus leucopus, vesper mouse
genus Peromyscus, Peromyscus - New World wood mice
wood mouse - any of various New World woodland mice
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The actual culprits appear to be the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), aka the field mouse, and the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus).
HANTAVIRUS, MICE AND US by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
For most host species for these ticks in nature, such as the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), protein databases currently are much less extensive.
Identification of residual blood proteins in ticks by mass ... by Wickramasekara, Samanthi; Bunikis, Jonas; Wysocki, Vicki; Barbour, Alan G. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The young forms of these ticks (nymphs) feed on the blood of rodents, particularly the white-footed mouse, which is a carrier of Lyme disease bacteria.
Lyme Disease-Symptoms and Causes of Lyme Disease by peterhutch / Health, general community
 
 
 
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