{"id":883,"date":"2014-06-04T04:11:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T08:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=883"},"modified":"2015-02-01T19:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T00:24:57","slug":"axolotl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/06\/04\/axolotl\/","title":{"rendered":"Axolotl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Axolotl is a type of salamander from Mexico that does not metamorphosize into a grown up shape instead it reaches sexual maturity in its larval form.<!--more--> This is called neoteny. In fact axolotls can be forced to develop into an adult terrestrial salamander by injecting them with thyroid hormones.<\/p>\n<p>Axolotls are used in scientific research as a model organism for vertebrate development because of the large size of their embryo. Axolotls are also the subject of many studies on how <a href=\"\/tag\/salamandrid\/\" title=\"Salamandridae\">salamanders<\/a> regenerate lost body parts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1313\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Axolotl-Expo01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1313\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Axolotl-Expo01.jpg\" alt=\"Axolotl.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1313\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Axolotl-Expo01.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Axolotl-Expo01-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Axolotl offered for sale as a pet at the <a href=\"\/2014\/09\/14\/crbe2014\/\" title=\"Canadian Reptile Breeders Expo 2014\">2014 Canadian Reptile Breeders Expo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many people like to keep axolotls as pets. There are some albino varieties, some with an interesting golden coloration.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1309\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Glow-in-the-dark-axolotl.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1309\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Glow-in-the-dark-axolotl.jpg\" alt=\"Glow in the dark Axolotl.\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1309\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Glow-in-the-dark-axolotl.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Glow-in-the-dark-axolotl-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genetically engineered &#8220;glow in the dark&#8221; axolotl.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.axolotl.org\/\" title=\"Axolotl.org\" target=\"_blank\">Axolotl.org<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axolotl\" title=\"Axolotl\" target=\"_blank\">Axolotl<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/34513-how-salamanders-regenerate-lost-limbs.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"How Salamanders Regenerate Lost Limbs | Tissue Regeneration\">How Salamanders Regenerate Lost Limbs<\/a> on livescience.com.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Axolotl is a type of salamander from Mexico that does not metamorphosize into a grown up shape instead it reaches sexual maturity in its larval form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[56,65,71,14,82,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}