{"id":145848,"date":"2022-09-07T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-welwitschia-genome-reveals-a-unique-biology-underpinning-extreme-longevity-in-deserts"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:23:11","slug":"the-welwitschia-genome-reveals-a-unique-biology-underpinning-extreme-longevity-in-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-welwitschia-genome-reveals-a-unique-biology-underpinning-extreme-longevity-in-deserts","title":{"rendered":"The Welwitschia genome reveals a unique biology underpinning extreme longevity in deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-welwitschia-genome-reveals-a-unique-biology-underpinning-extreme-longevity-in-deserts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2021 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<i><i>Welwitschia<\/i> mirabilis<\/i> is a unique plant that only has two leaves, but it can survive in hostile conditions of the African desert. Here, the authors report its chromosome-level genome assembly and discuss how gene function and regulation have given rise to its unique morphology and environmental adaptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2021 face_with_colon_three Welwitschia mirabilis is a unique plant that only has two leaves, but it can survive in hostile conditions of the African desert. Here, the authors report its chromosome-level genome assembly and discuss how gene function and regulation have given rise to its unique morphology and environmental adaptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145848","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=145848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}