{"id":231497,"date":"2026-02-17T01:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/molecule-of-the-month-histones-across-the-tree-of-life"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:24:06","slug":"molecule-of-the-month-histones-across-the-tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/molecule-of-the-month-histones-across-the-tree-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Molecule of the Month: Histones Across the Tree of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecule-of-the-month-histones-across-the-tree-of-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, histones have also been characterized in bacteria, including a bacterium found in soil and aquatic environments and in a spiral-shaped gram-negative bacterium.<\/p>\n<p>More at molecule of the month.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Uncovering the evolutionary diversity of histones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, histones have also been characterized in bacteria, including a bacterium found in soil and aquatic environments and in a spiral-shaped gram-negative bacterium. More at molecule of the month. Uncovering the evolutionary diversity of histones.<\/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-231497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231497","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=231497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}