{"id":658326,"date":"2020-06-17T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658326"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:38:24","slug":"gut-bacteria-may-modify-behavior-in-worms-influencing-eating-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658326","title":{"rendered":"Gut bacteria may modify behavior in worms, influencing eating habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gut bacteria are tiny but may play an outsized role not only in the host animal&#8217;s digestive health, but in their overall well-being. According to a new study in Nature, specific gut bacteria in the worm may modify the animal&#8217;s behavior, directing its dining decisions. The research was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-gut-bacteria-behavior-worms-habits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gut bacteria may modify behavior in worms, influencing eating habits<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gut bacteria are tiny but may play an outsized role not only in the host animal&#8217;s digestive health, but in their overall well-being. According to a new study in Nature,&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-658326","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\/658326","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=658326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658326\/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=658326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}