{"id":769130,"date":"2023-10-13T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=769130"},"modified":"2023-10-13T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T13:58:09","slug":"how-do-caterpillars-acquire-chubby-legs-scientists-trace-the-origins-to-a-genetic-program-associated-with-crabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=769130","title":{"rendered":"How do caterpillars acquire chubby legs? Scientists trace the origins to a genetic program associated with crabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adult insects, including butterflies and moths, typically have only three pairs of legs. But the existence of extra legs in caterpillars\u2014chubby abdominal appendages also known as &#8220;prolegs&#8221;\u2014has long posed an evolutionary mystery to biologists. A recent study by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) linked this novel trait to crustaceans.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-caterpillars-chubby-legs-scientists-genetic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How do caterpillars acquire chubby legs? Scientists trace the origins to a genetic program associated with crabs<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult insects, including butterflies and moths, typically have only three pairs of legs. But the existence of extra legs in caterpillars\u2014chubby abdominal appendages also known as &#8220;prolegs&#8221;\u2014has long posed an&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-769130","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\/769130","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=769130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769130\/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=769130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}