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Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Research Open Access Production of ultrasonic vocalizations by Peromyscus mice in the wild †1 1 †2 Matina C Kalcounis-Rueppell* , Jackie D Metheny and Maarten J Vonhof Address: 1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1000 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and 2Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Email: Matina C Kalcounis-Rueppell* - matina_kalcounis@; Jackie D Metheny - jdmethen@; Maarten J Vonhof - maarten.vonhof@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 28 February 2006 Received: 14 February 2006 Accepted: 28 February 2006 Frontiers in Zoology 2006, 3:3 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-3-3 This article is available from: /content/3/1/3 © 2006 Kalcounis-Rueppell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: There has been considerable research on rodent ultrasound in the laboratory and these sounds have been well quantified and characterized. Despite the value of research on ultrasound produced by mice in the