Philipp Pröts BSc. MSc.

Current position

PhD Student in the ‘shallow water symbiosis’ group

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-0715-0998

Main fields of scientific research

During my master’s thesis I investigated the morphology of the marine boring bryozoan Hypophorella expansa Ehlers, 1876 and switched to marines nematodes for my PhD. My current research focuses both on the pharynx morphology and feeding biology of the marine Stilbonematinae Chitwood, 1936 which live in a symbiosis with sulfur-oxidizing bacterial ectosymbionts.

Contact

Email: Philipp.proets@univie.ac.at

Phone: +43 676 9661393

Professional background

Born in Oberpullendorf (Burgenland, Austria), educated in Vienna, studies in Zoology at the University of Vienna, graduated in 2018.

Publications

Ott, J., & Pröts, P. (2021). Eubostrichopsis johnpearsei n. gen., n. sp., the first stilbonematid nematode (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from the US West Coast. Zootaxa, 4949(2), 353–362. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4949.2.8

Ott, J., Pröts, P., & Scharhauser, F. (2020) A new marine nematode, Catanema schiemeri n. sp. (Desmodoroidea) with multiple prokaryotic symbionts. Acta ZooBot Austria

Pröts, P., Wanninger, A., & Schwaha, T. (2019) Life in a tube: morphology of the ctenostome bryozoan Hypophorella expansa. Zoological Letters, 28(5). doi.org/10.1186/s40851-019-0142-2