{"id":188567,"date":"2024-05-03T02:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-gene-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-dokb-regulates-a-social-network-behaviour-in-drosophila-melanogaster"},"modified":"2024-05-03T02:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:25:55","slug":"the-gene-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-dokb-regulates-a-social-network-behaviour-in-drosophila-melanogaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/the-gene-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-dokb-regulates-a-social-network-behaviour-in-drosophila-melanogaster","title":{"rendered":"The gene \u201cdegrees of kevin bacon\u201d (dokb) regulates a social network behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-gene-degrees-of-kevin-bacon-dokb-regulates-a-social-network-behaviour-in-drosophila-melanogaster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paper in <i><i>Nature<\/i> Communications<\/i> describes a gene that regulates the structure of social networks in fruit flies, which is named after the actor Kevin Bacon. Read the paper:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The structure of a social network is thought to be heritable in many animals, including humans. Here, Rooke and colleagues identify a gene, which they name \u201c<i>degrees of kevin bacon<\/i> (dokb)\u201d, that is expressed in the central nervous system of <i><i>Drosophila<\/i> <i>melanogaster<\/i><\/i> and regulates the structure of social networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper in Nature Communications describes a gene that regulates the structure of social networks in fruit flies, which is named after the actor Kevin Bacon. Read the paper: The structure of a social network is thought to be heritable in many animals, including humans. Here, Rooke and colleagues identify a gene, which they name [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188567","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}