{"id":241184,"date":"2026-07-19T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nature-ecology-evolution-divergence"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:08:24","slug":"nature-ecology-evolution-divergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nature-ecology-evolution-divergence","title":{"rendered":"Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution divergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nature-ecology-evolution-divergence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yellow-eyed penguins, also known as hoiho or <i>takaraka<\/i> (<i><i>Megadyptes<\/i> antipodes<\/i>, pictured), are an endangered species endemic to Aotearoa (New Zealand) with only around 3,000 individuals left in the wild, and the only living member of the genus <i>Megadyptes<\/i>. In collaboration with Ng\u0101i Tahu iwi (tribe) of the South Island of Aotearoa, whole-genome sequencing of 249 individuals that span the entire species range has identified 3 phylogenetically distinct lineages, which suggests that they exist as 3 subspecies that have been isolated from each other for several thousand years. Genome scans also reveal candidate gene variants associated with differential susceptibility to neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow-eyed penguins, also known as hoiho or takaraka (Megadyptes antipodes, pictured), are an endangered species endemic to Aotearoa (New Zealand) with only around 3,000 individuals left in the wild, and the only living member of the genus Megadyptes. In collaboration with Ng\u0101i Tahu iwi (tribe) of the South Island of Aotearoa, whole-genome sequencing of 249 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241184","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}