{"id":109759,"date":"2020-07-10T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/supergenes-massive-blocks-of-genes-may-help-fill-lingering-gaps-in-darwins-theories-of-evolution"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:43:46","slug":"supergenes-massive-blocks-of-genes-may-help-fill-lingering-gaps-in-darwins-theories-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/supergenes-massive-blocks-of-genes-may-help-fill-lingering-gaps-in-darwins-theories-of-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Supergenes \u2013 Massive Blocks of Genes \u2013 May Help Fill Lingering Gaps in Darwin\u2019s Theories of Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supergenes-massive-blocks-of-genes-may-help-fill-lingering-gaps-in-darwins-theories-of-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Supergenes Play a Larger Role in Evolution Than Previously Thought<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Massive blocks of genes\u2014inherited together \u2018plug and play\u2019 style\u2014may play a larger role in evolutionary adaption than previously thought, according to new research in <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists identified 37 of these so-called \u2018supergenes\u2019 in wild sunflower populations, and found they govern the modular transfer of a large range of traits important for adaptation to local habitats. Those include seed size, timing of flowering, as well as the ability to withstand environmental stresses such as drought or limited nutrient availability, among many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supergenes Play a Larger Role in Evolution Than Previously Thought Massive blocks of genes\u2014inherited together \u2018plug and play\u2019 style\u2014may play a larger role in evolutionary adaption than previously thought, according to new research in Nature. Biologists identified 37 of these so-called \u2018supergenes\u2019 in wild sunflower populations, and found they govern the modular transfer of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109759","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=109759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}