{"id":570,"date":"2016-02-02T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biooutreach\/?p=570"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:03:45","slug":"hopeless-pairings-why-do-they-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/2016\/02\/02\/hopeless-pairings-why-do-they-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hopeless&#8217; pairings \u2013 why do they do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-572\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-3.png\" alt=\"screen-capture-3\" width=\"660\" height=\"329\" data-id=\"572\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFollowing Dr David Shuker\u2019s talk to the Dutch Entomological Society in December, Dutch Biology paper \u2018bionieuws\u2019 published a piece about his analysis of \u2018hopeless pairings\u2019. That is to say, why do some animals form pairings between individuals of different types or at different \u00a0developmental stages that cannot result in offspring? \u00a0Dr Shuker questions the meaning of these behaviours, and considers the insights into evolutionary mechanisms that studying them can bring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">More:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/02\/Bioneuws-January-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article\u00a0(pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insects.st-andrews.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About Dr Shuker\u2019s research<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bionieuws.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bionieuws<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Dr David Shuker\u2019s talk to the Dutch Entomological Society in December, Dutch Biology paper \u2018bionieuws\u2019 published a piece about his analysis of \u2018hopeless pairings\u2019. That is to say, why do some animals form pairings between individuals of different types or at different \u00a0developmental stages that cannot result in offspring? \u00a0Dr Shuker questions the meaning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,14,15],"tags":[29,43,51],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology","category-media","category-public","category-research","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-evolution","tag-netherlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-3.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}