{"id":647009,"date":"2020-02-20T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647009"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:15:35","slug":"dna-from-ancient-packrat-nests-helps-unpack-earths-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647009","title":{"rendered":"DNA from ancient packrat nests helps unpack Earth&#039;s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New work shows how using next-generation DNA sequencing on ancient packrat middens\u2014nests made out of plant material, fragments of insects, bones, fecal matter, and urine\u2014could provide ecological snapshots of Earth&#8217;s past. Published today in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the study may pave the way for scientists to better understand how plant communities\u2014and possibly animals, bacteria, and fungi as well\u2014will respond to human-caused climate change.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-dna-ancient-packrat-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">DNA from ancient packrat nests helps unpack Earth&#8217;s past<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New work shows how using next-generation DNA sequencing on ancient packrat middens\u2014nests made out of plant material, fragments of insects, bones, fecal matter, and urine\u2014could provide ecological snapshots of Earth&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647009","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647009\/revisions"}],"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=647009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}