{"id":12103,"date":"2017-04-03T15:39:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=12103"},"modified":"2017-12-11T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:51:57","slug":"researchers-uncover-clue-about-how-tiny-microbes-self-mutate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/researchers-uncover-clue-about-how-tiny-microbes-self-mutate\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover clue about how tiny microbes self-mutate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featuring C-DEBI Researcher Blair Paul.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that previously unidentified microorganisms have a genetic element that enables them to self-mutate. What&#8217;s more, these organisms are so plentiful they dramatically expand the diversity of the tree of life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This discovery reveals how rapid evolution happens in some of Earth&#8217;s smallest and most common, yet least-known, microbes,&#8221; said Mike Sieracki, program director in the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences and co-director of the Dimensions of Biodiversity program, which supported the research.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings appear in the journal\u00a0<em>Nature Microbiology<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI Researcher Blair Paul. Researchers have discovered that previously unidentified microorganisms have a genetic element that enables them to self-mutate. What&#8217;s more, these organisms are so plentiful they dramatically expand the diversity of the tree of life. &#8220;This discovery reveals how rapid evolution happens in some of Earth&#8217;s smallest and most common, yet least-known,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12109,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}