{"id":6746,"date":"2019-05-22T17:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2019-06-11T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:58:37","slug":"trading-gizzard-mass-for-flight-muscles-remodelling-migratory-bird-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/trading-gizzard-mass-for-flight-muscles-remodelling-migratory-bird-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading gizzard mass for flight muscles: <\/br>Remodelling <\/br>migratory bird bodies <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\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2019.0518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published May 22, 2019 | 17:01 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=20099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nMany long-distance migratory birds undergo seasonal flight-muscle build up to power long-distance flights and digestive-machinery break down to reduce body mass. Captive experiments with the red knot shorebird reveal that these body-remodelling patterns can be triggered by diet changes outside of the migration period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong>Kimberley Mathot, University of Alberta &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mathot@ualberta.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mathot@ualberta.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published May 22, 2019 | 17:01 EDT (Brief from the Royal Society) Many long-distance migratory birds undergo seasonal flight-muscle build up to power long-distance flights and digestive-machinery break down to reduce body mass. Captive experiments with the red knot shorebird reveal that these body-remodelling patterns can be [&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":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1KO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","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=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6820,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}