{"id":576371,"date":"2019-02-07T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a9d4409d4af772e48a2d440e0aa4dac7"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:25:25","slug":"research-explains-how-snakes-lost-their-limbs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=576371","title":{"rendered":"Research explains how snakes lost their limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes and lizards are reptiles that belong to the order Squamata. They share several traits but differ in one obvious respect: Snakes do not have limbs. The two suborders diverged more than 100 million years ago. Identification of the genetic factors involved in this loss of limbs is a focus of an article titled &#8220;Phenotype loss is associated with widespread divergence of the gene regulatory landscape in evolution,&#8221; published by Juliana Gusson Roscito and collaborators in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes and lizards are reptiles that belong to the order Squamata. They share several traits but differ in one obvious respect: Snakes do not have limbs. The two suborders diverged more than 100 million years ago. Identification of the genetic factors &#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-576371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576371","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=576371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576372,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576371\/revisions\/576372"}],"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=576371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}