{"id":704420,"date":"2021-10-08T03:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=704420"},"modified":"2021-10-08T03:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T07:24:25","slug":"team-discovers-invasive-native-crayfish-hybrids-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=704420","title":{"rendered":"Team discovers invasive-native crayfish hybrids in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a study of crayfish in the Current River in southeastern Missouri, researchers discovered\u2014almost by chance\u2014that the virile crayfish, Faxonius virilis, was interbreeding with a native crayfish, potentially altering the native&#8217;s genetics, life history and ecology. Reported in the journal Aquatic Invasions, the study highlights the difficulty of detecting some of the consequences of biological invasions, the researchers say.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-10-team-invasive-native-crayfish-hybrids-missouri.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Team discovers invasive-native crayfish hybrids in Missouri<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study of crayfish in the Current River in southeastern Missouri, researchers discovered\u2014almost by chance\u2014that the virile crayfish, Faxonius virilis, was interbreeding with a native crayfish, potentially altering the&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-704420","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\/704420","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=704420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704420\/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=704420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}