Lab mice
People have been breeding mice for more than 100 years, first as pets and later for medical research. These so-called laboratory mice are bred according to various criteria to obtain mice with defined characteristics (strains). However, the genetic information of the laboratory mice still contains genes from the various wild house mouse species.
On this page we would like to present a few examples of different breeding strains and their language:
Inbred House Mouse
Mus musculus musculus
Gender: male
Gender: male
The spectrogram of a male house mouse from the laboratory.
© MPI for Evolutionary Biologie
Inbred Laboratory Mouse
Mus musculus
Gender: female
Gender: female
The spectrogram of a female laboratory mouse.
© MPI for Evolutionary Biologie
Outbred Laboratory Mouse
Mus musculus
Gender: female
Gender: female
The spectrogram of a female outbred laboratory mouse.
© MPI for Evolutionary Biologie