{"id":461340,"date":"2018-04-10T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bb4d5238359bf8cc02e831b1c742017a"},"modified":"2018-04-10T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:22:45","slug":"substance-that-guides-ant-trail-is-produced-by-symbiotic-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=461340","title":{"rendered":"Substance that guides ant trail is produced by symbiotic bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers working on the Ribeir\u00e3o Preto campus of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that a bacterium found in the microbiota associated with leafcutter ant species Atta sexdens rubropilosa produces so-called &#8220;trail pheromones,&#8221; the aromatic chemical compounds used by the ants to lay a trail to their nest. An article on their findings has been published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers working on the Ribeir&atilde;o Preto campus of the University of S&atilde;o Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that a bacterium found in the microbiota associated with leafcutter ant species Atta sexdens rubropilosa produces so-called &#8220;trail pheromones,&#8221; the aromatic chemical compounds used by the ants to lay a trail to their nest. An article on their findings has been published in Scientific Reports.<\/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-461340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461340","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=461340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461341,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461340\/revisions\/461341"}],"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=461340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}