{"id":281884,"date":"2017-03-02T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8bc419a60eb1b25de365a942aa1a2300"},"modified":"2017-03-02T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:00:03","slug":"woolly-mammoths-experienced-a-genomic-meltdown-just-before-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=281884","title":{"rendered":"Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwindling populations created a &#8220;mutational meltdown&#8221; in the genomes of the last wooly mammoths, which had survived on an isolated island until a few thousand years ago. Rebekah Rogers and Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley, report these findings in a study published March 2nd, 2017 in PLOS Genetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwindling populations created a &#8220;mutational meltdown&#8221; in the genomes of the last wooly mammoths, which had survived on an isolated island until a few thousand years ago. Rebekah Rogers and Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley, r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281885,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281884\/revisions\/281885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}