AnAge entry for Peromyscus maniculatus
Classification (HAGRID: 03474)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Peromyscus
- Species
- Peromyscus maniculatus
- Common name
- Deer mouse
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 8.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 434
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, most animals probably live less than 2 years but in the laboratory may live up to 8.3 years [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 49 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 24 days
- Weaning
- 22 days
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3
- Inter-litter interval
- 27 days
- Weight at birth
- 2 g
- Weight at weaning
- 9.2 g
- Adult weight
- 20.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0643 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 107%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.6ºC or 97.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2190 W
- Body mass
- 20.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.010683 W/g
References
- [0917] Ungvari et al. (2008), Testing hypotheses of aging in long-lived mice of the genus Peromyscus: association between longevity and mitochondrial stress resistance, ROS detoxification pathways, and DNA repair efficiency, PubMed
- [0776] Seluanov et al. (2007), Telomerase activity coevolves with body mass not lifespan, PubMed
- [0777] Harper et al. (2007), Skin-derived fibroblasts from long-lived species are resistant to some, but not all, lethal stresses and to the mitochondrial inhibitor rotenone, PubMed
- [0715] Lorenzini et al. (2005), Cellular replicative capacity correlates primarily with species body mass not longevity, PubMed
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3, PubMed
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0308] Cohen et al. (1987), Accelerated wound repair in old deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) and white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), PubMed
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0059] Tolmasoff et al. (1980), Superoxide dismutase: correlation with life-span and specific metabolic rate in primate species, PubMed
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview, PubMed
- [0773] PeroBase
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180276
- Animal Diversity Web
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- Ageing Literature
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