{"id":602432,"date":"2019-04-05T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bbe05ee171bb8a607f8e0b80a06b8847"},"modified":"2019-04-05T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:40:31","slug":"screw-shaped-bird-sperm-swim-faster-but-it-comes-at-a-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=602432","title":{"rendered":"Screw-shaped bird sperm swim faster\u2014but it comes at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study by Ph.D. student Hanna Nyborg St\u00f8stad has investigated the peculiar spiral shape of songbird sperm. St\u00f8stad compared sperm cells of 36 bird species including house sparrows and tree swallows, and found that species whose sperm had a particularly distinct spiral or corkscrew shape also had sperm with high average swimming speed. However, those species also tended to have high rates of abnormal or damaged sperm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by Ph.D. student Hanna Nyborg St&oslash;stad has investigated the peculiar spiral shape of songbird sperm. St&oslash;stad compared sperm cells of 36 bird species including house sparrows and tree swallows, and found that species whose sperm had a particularly distinct spiral or corkscrew shape also had sperm with high average swimming speed. However, those species also tended to have high rates of abnormal or damaged sperm.<\/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-602432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602432","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=602432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602433,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602432\/revisions\/602433"}],"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=602432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}