{"id":7614,"date":"2017-01-12T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2017-01-12T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:31:03","slug":"word-of-the-day-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/12\/word-of-the-day-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gonopodium<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mating between mosquito fish \u2013 a relative of the guppy \u2013 is far from romantic. The male makes no effort to court partners. Instead, he sneaks up and attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126903-400-butterflies-use-penis-to-gauge-sex-competition\/\">copulate by force up to 1000 times<\/a> a day \u2013 and females try to avoid the harassment. Males use a modified anal fin, the gonopodium, to deliver sperm into the female.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9verine Buechel at Stockholm University in Sweden and colleagues bred males to have longer gonopodia, and found that this led to bigger-brained females (<i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/bvmv\">doi.org\/bvmv<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23231042-500-longer-penis-drives-evolution-of-bigger-brains-in-female-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Longer \u2018penis\u2019 drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (17 December 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonopodium: Mating between mosquito fish \u2013 a relative of the guppy \u2013 is far from romantic. The male makes no effort to court partners. Instead, he sneaks up and attempts to copulate by force up to 1000 times a day \u2013 and females try to avoid the harassment. Males use \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/12\/word-of-the-day-75\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}