{"id":951,"date":"2004-09-19T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2004-09-19T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T17:35:40","slug":"sex-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"sex in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>has circumvented a pet ban by buying an aquarium, and is now researching which fish she should stock it with.<\/p>\n\n<p>Google led her to the Japanese ricefish, or Medaka, <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmo.ric.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/SPACEMEDAKA\/IML2\/e\/BOOKCONTENTS_E.html\">the only species of vertebrate<\/a> attested to have had sex in space.<\/p>\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t easy for the Medaka. It took them <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmo.ric.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/SPACEMEDAKA\/IML2video\/QTmovie\/2556.MOV\" title=\"8mb quicktime of piscine teenage fumbling\">hours.<\/a> Many candidates reacted to the strains of zero gravity by looping the loop compulsively. But in the end, four heroic ricefish were sent up on <em>Columbia<\/em> in 1994, and several hundred of them came down.<\/p>\n\n<p>I find it shocking that these creatures beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\">my beloved worm<\/a> into space. But they have one more thing in common with <em>c.elegans:<\/em> there are lab stocks marked in interesting ways with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubMed&amp;list_uids=11226275&amp;dopt=Abstract\"><span class=\"caps\">GFP.<\/span><\/a> All we have to do now is to get hold of some.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>has circumvented a pet ban by buying an aquarium, and is now researching which fish she should stock it with. Google led her to the Japanese ricefish, or Medaka, the only species of vertebrate attested to have had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}