The white-footed deermouse has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside and feet. The Texas account describes it as mostly nocturnal and living in woodlands and river bottoms.
The back is cinnamon-red mixed with black, the sides are paler, and the belly and feet are white. Its sparsely haired tail is darker above, but is usually not sharply divided in color.
Small forest patches remain among the roads and buildings of New York City, and white-footed mice live in them. Researchers compared urban and rural populations to study how the species differs across those settings. The paper describes the mice as common residents of the city’s forest fragments.
The analysis identified 31,015 genetic variants and candidate genes that may have experienced selection in urban populations. Comparisons also showed differences among city populations, indicating that responses to urban conditions can vary from one place to another. Multiple tissue samples were included in this study of urban and rural mice.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
White-footed mice live in New York City forest fragments, and this study found genetic differences between urban and rural populations.