{"id":1390,"date":"2014-10-07T01:04:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T05:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2014-10-07T01:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T05:04:19","slug":"northern-tree-shrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/10\/07\/northern-tree-shrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Tree Shrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tree shrews used to be considered close relatives to primates but modern DNA tests show that it isn&#8217;t so.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1389\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tupaia-belangeri.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1389\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tupaia-belangeri.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Tree Shrew\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tupaia-belangeri.jpg 600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tupaia-belangeri-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern tree shrew (<em>Tupaia belangeri<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/szeged\/szeged-zoo\/\" title=\"Szeged Zoo\">Szeged Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Currently tree shrews are classified in their own order <em>Scandentia<\/em>. Tree shrews are not really shrews, or rodents, or primates as people thought at various times.<\/p>\n<p>For various reasons tree shrews are often used in medical research and their DNA has been one sequenced relatively early for research purposes.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_treeshrew\" title=\"Northern treeshrew\" target=\"_blank\">Northern treeshrew<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thainationalparks.com\/specie\/northern-treeshrew\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri)\">Northern treeshrew (<em>Tupaia belangeri<\/em>)<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/moma.ki.au.dk\/genome-mirror\/cgi-bin\/hgGateway?hgsid=1&amp;clade=other&amp;org=Tree+shrew&amp;db=0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) Genome Browser Gateway\">Tree shrew (<em>Tupaia belangeri<\/em>) Genome Browser Gateway<\/a>.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree shrews used to be considered close relatives to primates but modern DNA tests show that it isn&#8217;t so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,40,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}