{"id":174376,"date":"2023-10-19T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/unraveling-the-octopuss-2-8-billion-base-genome"},"modified":"2023-10-19T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T04:00:17","slug":"unraveling-the-octopuss-2-8-billion-base-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/unraveling-the-octopuss-2-8-billion-base-genome","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling the Octopus\u2019s 2.8 Billion-Base Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unraveling-the-octopuss-2-8-billion-base-genome2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Scientists have successfully determined the genomic composition of octopuses, unveiling a whopping 2.8 billion base pairs across 30 chromosomes. This was a result of comprehensive, computer-assisted genome studies and comparisons with other cephalopod species.<\/p>\n<p>This high-quality reference sequence paves the way for understanding octopus biology and tracing its evolutionary trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which shine a light on the dynamic evolutionary history of the octopus genome, will enrich research in neurobiology, behavior, and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Scientists have successfully determined the genomic composition of octopuses, unveiling a whopping 2.8 billion base pairs across 30 chromosomes. This was a result of comprehensive, computer-assisted genome studies and comparisons with other cephalopod species. This high-quality reference sequence paves the way for understanding octopus biology and tracing its evolutionary trajectory. The findings, which shine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174376","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}