{"id":540447,"date":"2025-01-14T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=540447"},"modified":"2025-01-14T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:28:08","slug":"sea-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/sea-broccoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might think you have seen something like this on your plate before. But the image above was actually made using a microscope and an antibody that marked the tubulin protein in the tentacles of a <em>Limaria pellucida <\/em>mollusk bright green. The technique highlighted the animal\u2019s innervation, from the central nerve to the branches in the appendages that stretch out around the yellowish-orange animal, which looks something like a four-centimeter-long mussel and inhabits the S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o channel in S\u00e3o Paulo. Genome studies have demonstrated the tactile and chemical-sensing properties of these appendages. \u201cThey don\u2019t have a head. Their primary contact with the environment is through their tentacles,\u201d says Jorge Audino, from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP).<\/p>\n<p><em>Image submitted by zoologist Jorge Audino, currently a postdoctoral fellow at USP\u2019s Institute of Biosciences<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microscope image uses fluorescent antibodies to highlight the innervation of tentacles, which resemble broccoli","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":540448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-540447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photolab","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540447","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=540447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540452,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540447\/revisions\/540452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=540447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}