{"id":128681,"date":"2021-10-08T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-pinpoint-evolutionary-genes-that-allow-lizards-to-give-birth-like-mammals"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:22:35","slug":"scientists-pinpoint-evolutionary-genes-that-allow-lizards-to-give-birth-like-mammals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-pinpoint-evolutionary-genes-that-allow-lizards-to-give-birth-like-mammals","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pinpoint evolutionary genes that allow lizards to give birth like mammals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-pinpoint-evolutionary-genes-that-allow-lizards-to-give-birth-like-mammals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hans Recknagel, who led the field and genome research during his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research, said: This was fascinating research, not least because in this species of lizard egg-laying populations still occur and interbreed with live-bearing ones.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists studying the evolution of birth in lizards, from egg-laying to live births, have pinpointed the evolutionary genes from which the species is evolving to \u2018build\u2019 a new mode of reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2014led by the University of Glasgow and published in <i>Nature Ecology and Evolution <\/i>\u2014found that a significantly similar amount of the same genes involved in the pregnancy of lizards were shared with other mammals and live-bearing vertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>Evolving from egg-laying to live birth\u2014also known as viviparity\u2014is a major evolutionary step; however, it is almost impossible to study the genes that lead to such major changes because when animals have evolved live-birth it was usually in the distant past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hans Recknagel, who led the field and genome research during his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research, said: This was fascinating research, not least because in this species of lizard egg-laying populations still occur and interbreed with live-bearing ones. Scientists studying the evolution of birth in lizards, from egg-laying to live births, have pinpointed the evolutionary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128681","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}