{"id":146767,"date":"2014-04-16T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=146767"},"modified":"2014-04-16T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:13:18","slug":"marine-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/marine-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-146769\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/003_Fotolab_217.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/003_Fotolab_217.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/003_Fotolab_217-120x81.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/003_Fotolab_217-250x169.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>The specimen that appears to be an alien straight out of a movie is nothing more than a marine worm found in the S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o canal along the coast of S\u00e3o Paulo.\u00a0 It belongs to the species <i>Hesione picta<\/i> and was photographed in a laboratory with a stereoscopic microscope using a dark-field technique combined with incident light.\u00a0 The image won third place in the 2013 annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nikon Small World<\/a> photomicrography competition (www.nikonsmallworld.com).\u00a0 \u201cMy intention was to get a good photographic record of the species for instructional and publication purposes as well as for possible use in field guides,\u201d\u00a0says biologist Alvaro Esteves Migotto of the Center for Marine Biology at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (CEBIMar-USP).<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo submitted by Alvaro Esteves Migotto of CEBIMar-USP.<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If you have a picture related to research, send it to: <a href=\"mailto:%20imagempesquisa@fapesp.br\" target=\"_blank\">imagempesquisa@fapesp.br<\/a>, resolution 300 dpi (width: 15 cm) or at least 5 MB.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Your work may be selected by the magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marine alien","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[209,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photolab","tag-biology","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}