{"id":711674,"date":"2010-04-07T21:12:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:07:27","slug":"drosophila-we-hardly-knew-ye-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711674","title":{"rendered":"Drosophila, We Hardly Knew Ye | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3186\/2993341786_e9412e91dc.jpg?resize=400%2C310\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\"\/>Is <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>, one of science&#8217;s favorite creatures, about to lose its name? Rex Dalton at <em>Nature<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100407\/full\/464825a.html\">has the story<\/a> of this taxonomic imbroglio.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11304375@N07\/2993341786\/\">[Image by Andr\u00e9 Karwath aka Aka via Flickr]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/X3ycfWpm1kJOhtLB9v7sSjdkaQ0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/X3ycfWpm1kJOhtLB9v7sSjdkaQ0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/X3ycfWpm1kJOhtLB9v7sSjdkaQ0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/X3ycfWpm1kJOhtLB9v7sSjdkaQ0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/H0Lvg9XMiIs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/TTK1fAVsU0w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Drosophila melanogaster, one of science&#8217;s favorite creatures, about to lose its name? Rex Dalton at Nature has the story of this taxonomic imbroglio. [Image by Andr\u00e9 Karwath aka Aka via Flickr]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Z8C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813001,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711674\/revisions\/813001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}