{"id":119351,"date":"2021-02-08T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/devious-sperm-poison-their-rivals-forcing-them-to-swim-in-circles-until-they-die"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:25:52","slug":"devious-sperm-poison-their-rivals-forcing-them-to-swim-in-circles-until-they-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/devious-sperm-poison-their-rivals-forcing-them-to-swim-in-circles-until-they-die","title":{"rendered":"Devious sperm \u2018poison\u2019 their rivals, forcing them to swim in circles until they die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/devious-sperm-poison-their-rivals-forcing-them-to-swim-in-circles-until-they-die2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sperm are \u2018ruthless competitors\u2019 who aren\u2019t above poisoning their brothers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mouse sperm carrying a genetic sequence called the t-haplotype will poison their competitors, then make an \u2018antidote\u2019 only for themselves, new research finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sperm are \u2018ruthless competitors\u2019 who aren\u2019t above poisoning their brothers. Mouse sperm carrying a genetic sequence called the t-haplotype will poison their competitors, then make an \u2018antidote\u2019 only for themselves, new research finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119351","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}