{"id":678913,"date":"2021-01-21T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678913"},"modified":"2021-01-21T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:09:29","slug":"snake-sex-chromosomes-say-less-about-sex-and-more-about-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678913","title":{"rendered":"Snake sex chromosomes say less about sex and more about survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sex-specific chromosomes are a dangerous place to be, if you&#8217;re a gene. Because these chromosomes\u2014Y chromosomes, in humans\u2014do not have a matching chromosome with which to exchange genetic information, they are prone to losing non-essential genes left and right in a process called genetic decay.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-snake-sex-chromosomes-survival.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Snake sex chromosomes say less about sex and more about survival<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex-specific chromosomes are a dangerous place to be, if you&#8217;re a gene. Because these chromosomes\u2014Y chromosomes, in humans\u2014do not have a matching chromosome with which to exchange genetic information, they&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-678913","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\/678913","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=678913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678913\/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=678913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}