{"id":213579,"date":"2025-05-08T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/long-distance-gene-control-appeared-over-650-million-years-ago-study-suggests"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:10:04","slug":"long-distance-gene-control-appeared-over-650-million-years-ago-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/long-distance-gene-control-appeared-over-650-million-years-ago-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Long-Distance Gene Control Appeared Over 650 Million Years Ago, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-distance-gene-control-appeared-over-650-million-years-ago-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Distal regulation \u2014 the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of thousands of DNA letters \u2014 appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution, between 650 and 700 million years ago \u2014 around 150 million years earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distal regulation \u2014 the ability to control genes from far away, over many tens of thousands of DNA letters \u2014 appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution, between 650 and 700 million years ago \u2014 around 150 million years earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213579","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\/213579","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}