researchers found<\/a> the majority of house mice sampled in Philadelphia, New York City, Washington, D.C. and New Jersey contained mutations.<\/p>\n\u201c70% of the mice contained at least one mutation that related to resistance,\u201d said Dr. Changlu Wang, who indicated one new type of mouse mutation was discovered from Philadelphia\u2019s rodent samples.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether that mutation is very different from others, we don’t know, but at least found that mutation potentially be related to the resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The study examined rats as well. They had fewer mutations than mice, but researchers said they had the same ability to adapt to poisons. Researchers also found samples found in Europe show more of a problem with mutation than the samples taken in the U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Europe, we know they at least have 23 different kinds of mutations,\u201d said Wang. \u201cHere, we only found four mutations in the population.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wang recommends implementing non-toxic rodent control measures. Otherwise, he warns rodents will take longer to kill and their populations will grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A new mutation in mice has been discovered from samples taken in Philadelphia as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25139,98959,69,71,70,1164,65939,8039],"class_list":["post-228410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mice","tag-pest-control","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-research","tag-rutgers-university","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}