Despite the name, the primary modern flavoring ingredients in a cola drink are sugar, citrus oils (from oranges, limes, or lemon fruit peel), cinnamon, vanilla, and an acidic flavorant. Manufacturers of cola drinks add trace ingredients to create distinctively different tastes for each brand.
Features of inbred mice. A strength of the laboratory mouse as a model system results from the availability of hundreds of inbred strains which harbor different characteristics, including some that are prone to develop specific types of cancers.
Deer mice begin breeding at only about six weeks of age, their gestation time is 24 days, and each female can produce up to eleven litters each year with about 2-9 young in each litter. The babies are weaned at 4 weeks of age and are ready to breed and increase the deer mouse population in another two weeks. Deer mice are carriers of the Hantavirus.