{"id":2277,"date":"2005-09-15T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2005-09-15T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T15:53:00","slug":"lice-unto-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/09\/15\/11\/53\/lice-unto-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Lice Unto the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utah.edu\/unews\/releases\/05\/sep\/whalelice.html\">University of Utah biologists studied the genetics of whale lice  small crustaceans that are parasites on endangered right whales  and showed the giant whales split into three species 5 million to 6 million years ago &#8230;  One southern right whale crossed the equator 1 million to 2 million years ago, leaving evidence of the trip when its whale lice bred with those on North Pacific right whales.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwell-synergy.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1365-294X.2005.02664.x\">Most cetaceans carry populations of benign ectoparasites called cyamids or &#8216;whale lice&#8217;, which are amphipod crustaceans (Caprellidea; Cyamidae). Cyamids spend all life stages on whales, feeding on the outer surface of their host&#8217;s epidermis (Rowntree 1983, 1996). They roam widely on their hosts, but because they have no free-swimming stage they can migrate only between whales that contact each other. The ecological universe of a cyamid population is therefore well defined and sharply bounded, consisting of many virtually identical and constantly moving habitat islands (whales) that occasionally replace themselves through a simple birth-and-death process.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Utah biologists studied the genetics of whale lice small crustaceans that are parasites on endangered right whales and showed the giant whales split into three species 5 million to 6 million years&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}