{"id":524,"date":"2013-06-13T19:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/?p=524"},"modified":"2013-06-13T19:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:56:57","slug":"evolution-of-mammalian-diving-capacity-traced-by-myoglobin-net-surface-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2013\/06\/13\/evolution-of-mammalian-diving-capacity-traced-by-myoglobin-net-surface-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Mammalian Diving Capacity Traced by Myoglobin Net Surface Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article in Science examines the molecular evolution of myoglobin and in particular changes that result in differences in the net surface charge of the protein.\u00a0 Increases in net surface charge allow for increased oxygen storage while protecting protein stability.\u00a0 This is an example of convergent evolution as this is a common them in different lineages of diving mammals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/340\/6138\/1234192\">Evolution of Mammalian Diving Capacity Traced by Myoglobin Net Surface Charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in Science examines the molecular evolution of myoglobin and in particular changes that result in differences in the net surface charge of the protein.\u00a0 Increases in net surface charge allow for increased oxygen storage while protecting protein stability.\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2013\/06\/13\/evolution-of-mammalian-diving-capacity-traced-by-myoglobin-net-surface-charge\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evolution of Mammalian Diving Capacity Traced by Myoglobin Net Surface Charge<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4352,4354],"tags":[12388,12390,12389],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-research-articles","tag-convergent-evolution","tag-diving-mammals","tag-myoglobin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}