{"id":3183,"date":"2010-10-06T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2010-10-06T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T16:05:55","slug":"transgenic-nudibranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3183","title":{"rendered":"Transgenic nudibranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/lifestyle\/pets-animals\/stories\/bizarre-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bizarre-sea-slug.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Not only does <em>E. chlorotica<\/em> turn sunlight into energy \u2014  something only plants can do \u2014 it also appears to have swiped this  ability from the algae it consumes.<\/div>\n<div>Native to the salt marshes of New England and Canada, these sea  slugs use contraband chlorophyll-producing genes and cell parts called  chloroplasts from algae to carry out photosynthesis, says Sidney Pierce,  a biologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.<\/div>\n<div>That genetic material has since been passed down to the next generation, eliminating the need to consume algae for energy.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/lifestyle\/pets-animals\/stories\/bizarre-sea-slug-is-half-plant-half-animal-0\">Bizarre sea slug is half plant, half animal | MNN &#8211; Mother Nature Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vias <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SynapticNulship\/status\/26528272093\">@SynapticNulship<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only does E. chlorotica turn sunlight into energy \u2014 something only plants can do \u2014 it also appears to have swiped this ability from the algae it consumes. Native to the salt marshes of New England and Canada, these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-Pl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}