{"id":4201,"date":"2015-07-23T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2015-07-27T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:59:04","slug":"the-secrets-of-stink-bugs-a-new-chemical-compound-and-selective-egg-colouration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-secrets-of-stink-bugs-a-new-chemical-compound-and-selective-egg-colouration\/","title":{"rendered":"The secrets of stink bugs: A new chemical compound and selective egg colouration<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4202\" style=\"width: 469px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4202\" class=\"wp-image-4202\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95672.jpg\" alt=\"Stink bugs are able to select how light or dark their eggs are when they lay them. The varying shades can be seen along the bottom of the image from the lightest eggs (left) to the darkest (right). (Image credit: Leslie Abram)\" width=\"459\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95672.jpg 874w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95672-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stink bugs are able to select how light or dark their eggs are when they lay them. The varying shades can be seen along the bottom of the image from the lightest eggs (left) to the darkest (right). (Image credit: Leslie Abram)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stink bugs, <em>Podisus maculiventris<\/em>, are able to change the colour of the eggs they lay to better protect them from UV radiation, according to new findings. The researchers expected the colour variation to come from differing levels of melanin, however they found a new compound responsible for the pigmentation.<\/p>\n<p>While stink bugs are the first animals seen to have this ability, the research team believes others will be found.<\/p>\n<p>In the future the research team will work to identify the chemical composition and structure of this new pigment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(15)00675-2\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Current Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 23<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Paul K. Abram, Research Institute of Biology of Plants, University of Montreal, Quebec, &amp; Centre for Research and Development in Horticulture, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stink bugs, Podisus maculiventris, are able to change the colour of the eggs they lay to better protect them from UV radiation, according to new findings. The researchers expected the colour variation to come from differing levels of melanin, however they found a new compound responsible for the pigmentation. While stink bugs are the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[39,1471,170,171,40,849],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-biochemistry","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-insects","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/95672.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-15L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}