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Penn-Zala Lab
@pennzalalab.bsky.social
Behavioral biology, sexual selection, sexual conflict, animal communication, mechanisms & functions of courtship signals
📣 Congratulations to Anna Kruppa who just finished her MSc thesis 🥳 and presented her study on USVs and inbreeding status in wild house mice! 🎉
How do 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶? Brava Anna! 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
So very rewarding teaching children about the ultrasonic songs of mice and seeing the kids’ (and their parents’ 😉) faces upon hearing them (which we made audible for human ears). Thanks to Maja Peng and Bettina Wernisch for their great teamwork! @klivvvienna.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📣 Paper alert! Have you ever wondered what a ketogenic diet might do to unborn offspring? Here we show that pregnant healthy 🐭 on a ketogenic diet give birth to less females pups and that the male pups die earlier than controls.
Check it out: ▶️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Berta Retana Ferrés, who just defended her BS thesis at the University of Barcelona 🥳 presenting her work from the Erasmus internship that she did in our lab in Vienna! 😃 Berta found very interesting results on how 🐭 respond to USVs 🎶 👏
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Thank you #LorentzCenter for funding us!
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
📢 Six papers 🐭, one wedding and one baby later 👶… congratulations to Dr. Doris Nicolakis 🥳, who just gave a great talk 👏 and defended her PhD entitled “Adaptive functions of courtship signals in male house mice (Mus musculus musculus)” 🎵 🎉 Looking forward to new great discoveries with Doris!
February 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
When you arrive at work and it looks like this! 😃
@KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna
January 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
📢 Teresa Klaus heroically classified >53000 USVs in wild🐭during courtship and mating. We found changes in their vocal composition, some USVs correlated with mating success, and there is evidence for vocal duetting! 🎶 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
January 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🎉 What a great job Martina Zani! Her MS thesis talk on USV discrimination in wild 🐭 was excellent. Congratulations! 🥳 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna🐭
January 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM