{"id":1357,"date":"2017-08-23T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T01:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:52:39","slug":"kill-it-with-fire-bark-scorpion-arose-from-rare-genetic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"Bark Scorpion Arose from Rare Genetic Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/523053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/95\/Arizona_bark_scorpion_glowing_under_ultraviolet_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arizona bark scorpion glowing under ultraviolet light. Photo by Bryce Alexander.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 450 million years ago, the entire genetic instruction book of spiders&#8217; and scorpions&#8217; common ancestor doubled, according to a genomic comparison of the common house spider and the Arizona bark scorpion.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/523053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rare Whole Genome Duplication Gave Rise To Arizona Bark Scorpion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 450 million years ago, the entire genetic instruction book of spiders&#8217; and scorpions&#8217; common ancestor doubled, according to a genomic comparison of the common house spider and the Arizona bark scorpion. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk: Rare Whole Genome Duplication Gave Rise To Arizona Bark Scorpion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,3,207],"tags":[1099,1364,1361,1362,1363],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-genetics","category-science","category-weird","tag-arthropod","tag-genome","tag-i5k","tag-scorpion","tag-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}