An inherited agent of mutation with chromosome damage in wild mice.
A population of wild mice in Peru was sampled three times over a period of 20 years. Inbreeding from each sample has shown the population to carry an unusually high frequency of visible mutants and nestling lethals. Preliminary evidence of chromosomal damage suggests an inherited tendency to some form of genetic instability.
D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005843:Geography; D051379:Mice / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation; D010568:Peru