Tracking plans to genetically modify wild species
The publication Long et al., (2019) describes the genome sequence of this species. The authors state that 'gene-drive technologies to render wild Peromyscus resistant to infection are increasingly seen as plausible ways to prevent human disease ' and that 'more thorough characterization of natural nucleotide variation in this species across its range will aid in the design of efficient gene drive constructs for possible application to this disease reservoir...'.