{"id":6190,"date":"2018-07-18T00:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T04:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2018-08-10T00:24:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T04:24:24","slug":"white-clover-becomes-less-toxic-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/white-clover-becomes-less-toxic-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"White clover becomes less toxic in the city <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/285\/1883\/20181019\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers show that across 20 cities, towns and villages in southern Canada, common white clover repeatedly adapts to city environments by evolving to have less toxic defences. The results show adaptation to cities may be common, and this evolutionary change may have important consequences for maintaining healthy city ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author: <\/strong>Marc Johnson, University of Toronto &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:marc.johnson@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">marc.johnson@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Researchers show that across 20 cities, towns and villages in southern Canada, common white clover repeatedly adapts to city environments by evolving to have less toxic defences. The results show adaptation to cities may be common, and this evolutionary change may have important consequences for maintaining healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1BQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}