{"id":5973,"date":"2020-08-11T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2020-08-11T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:06:10","slug":"return-of-the-zombie-cicadas-wvu-team-unearths-manipulative-qualities-of-fungal-infected-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5973","title":{"rendered":"Return of the zombie cicadas: WVU team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with their fellow insects, resulting in effective disease transmission, according to West Virginia University-led research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wvutoday.wvu.edu\/stories\/2020\/07\/27\/return-of-the-zombie-cicadas-wvu-team-unearths-manipulative-qualities-of-fungal-infected-flyers\">Return of the zombie cicadas: WVU team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9,209],"class_list":["post-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-weird","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}