{"id":413,"date":"2003-03-04T04:27:39","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T04:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:17","slug":"ants-like-their-aunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"ants like their aunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It seems that ants aren&#8217;t as cooperative and  selfless as they&#8217;re cracked up to be. Minttumaaria Hannonen  and  Liselotte Sundstrom  of the University of Helsinki report in the Feb. 27 <em> Nature<\/em> that they have found the first evidence of nepotism in ants. Ant  colonies are often made up of worker ants descended from multiple  queens, all of which appear to work cooperatively in the colony&#8217;s best  interest. But, by using genetic screening, the Finnish researchers have  found that <em>Formica fusca<\/em> ants actively favor their own relatives when  caring for eggs and larvae. This means that ants also have developed  some way of identifying how closely related they are to each other. Even  for ants, blood, or hemolymph in this case, is thicker than water. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 3\/04\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that ants aren&#8217;t as cooperative and selfless as they&#8217;re cracked up to be. Minttumaaria Hannonen and Liselotte Sundstrom of the University of Helsinki report in the Feb. 27 Nature that they have found the first evidence of nepotism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}