murine
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New Guinean woolly rats, related to the giant cloud rats of the Philippines, rank among the largest murine rodents on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
That doesn’t include the cost of the diseases the animals spread, such as hantavirus, murine typhus and bubonic plague, nor the mental health toll of living among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
They can also help spread murine typhus and food-borne germs like salmonella.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
HKU1 has the murkiest evolutionary history, but its genetic sequence clusters close to the murine hepatitis virus, suggesting it has a rodent origin.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
A scientist who replaces murine model with rats and mice will use up no more space on the page and be no less scientific.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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