{"id":678467,"date":"2021-01-15T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678467"},"modified":"2021-01-15T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:09:52","slug":"how-hitchhiking-worms-choose-their-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678467","title":{"rendered":"How hitchhiking worms choose their vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny worms that live inside fig trees use the fig wasp as a &#8216;vehicle&#8217; to hitch rides from one tree to another by crawling into the wasp&#8217;s gut without harming it. This relationship has existed for millions of years. But how do these worms\u2012called nematodes\u2012choose their wasp vehicles? What cues do they use to check for co-passengers? A new study from the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) provides some answers.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-hitchhiking-worms-vehicles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How hitchhiking worms choose their vehicles<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny worms that live inside fig trees use the fig wasp as a &#8216;vehicle&#8217; to hitch rides from one tree to another by crawling into the wasp&#8217;s gut without harming&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-678467","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\/678467","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=678467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678467\/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=678467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}