{"id":706928,"date":"2021-11-02T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=706928"},"modified":"2021-11-02T08:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:12:02","slug":"researchers-identify-bird-and-reptile-microchromosomes-once-thought-to-be-dust-specks-on-a-microscope-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=706928","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify bird and reptile &#039;microchromosomes&#039; once thought to be dust specks on a microscope slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that tiny &#8216;microchromosomes&#8217; in birds and reptiles, initially thought to be specks of dust on the microscope slide, are linked to a spineless animal ancestor that lived 684 million years ago. They prove to be the building blocks of all animal genomes, but underwent &#8220;dizzying rearrangement&#8221; in mammals, including humans.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-bird-reptile-microchromosomes-thought-specks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Researchers identify bird and reptile &#8216;microchromosomes&#8217; once thought to be dust specks on a microscope slide<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that tiny &#8216;microchromosomes&#8217; in birds and reptiles, initially thought to be specks of dust on the microscope slide, are linked to a spineless animal ancestor that lived&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-706928","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\/706928","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=706928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706928\/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=706928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}