{"id":102504,"date":"2020-02-18T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-mystery-of-millipede-mating-revealed-in-landmark-imaging-study"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:49:49","slug":"the-mystery-of-millipede-mating-revealed-in-landmark-imaging-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-mystery-of-millipede-mating-revealed-in-landmark-imaging-study","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of millipede mating revealed in landmark imaging study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mystery-of-millipede-mating-revealed-in-landmark-imaging-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of US scientists has just solved a long-standing biological mystery \u2013 how exactly do millipedes mate? Using a variety of novel imaging methods, including microscopic ultraviolet photography and micro-CT scanning, the research finally figured out how these tiny creatures get it on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve been able to understand these millipedes\u2019 mechanism of insertion, how the male and female organs interact with each other,\u201d says Petra Sierwald, from Chicago\u2019s Field Museum and one of the study\u2019s authors. \u201cBefore this, we had no idea how he would actually get the sperm into her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Millipedes can generally be somewhat shy organisms, so getting them to mate in laboratory conditions hasn\u2019t been easy. The new study focused on a type of small, brown North American millipede called Pseudopolydesmus, known for being more than willing to mate, even in the most exhibitionist situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of US scientists has just solved a long-standing biological mystery \u2013 how exactly do millipedes mate? Using a variety of novel imaging methods, including microscopic ultraviolet photography and micro-CT scanning, the research finally figured out how these tiny creatures get it on. \u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve been able to understand these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}