{"id":4238,"date":"2023-08-01T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:40:27","slug":"scientists-woke-up-a-46000-year-old-roundworm-from-siberian-permafrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/01\/scientists-woke-up-a-46000-year-old-roundworm-from-siberian-permafrost\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists woke up a 46,000-year-old roundworm from Siberian permafrost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2023\/07\/27\/nematode-revived-siberian-permafrost\/\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A female microscopic roundworm that spent the last 46,000 years in suspended animation deep in the Siberian permafrost was revived and started having babies in a laboratory dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By sequencing the genome of this Rip Van Winkle roundworm, scientists revealed it to be a new species of nematode, which is described in a study published Thursday in the journal&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosgenetics\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pgen.1010798\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PLOS Genetics., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PLOS Genetics.<\/a>&nbsp;Nematodes today are among the most ubiquitous organisms on Earth, inhabiting the soil, the water and the ocean floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of nematode species have not been described,\u201d William Crow, a nematologist at the University of Florida who was not involved in the study, wrote in an email. The ancient Siberian worm could be a species that has since gone extinct, he said. \u201cHowever, it very well could be a commonly occurring nematode that no one got around to describing yet.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dying to know more? Here&#8217;s the associated paper entitled, &#8220;A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with&nbsp;<em>C<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>elegans<\/em>&nbsp;dauer larva&#8221; in PLOS Genetics!<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"YZcgFR fOgScdo\">YZcgFR fOgScdo<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post A female microscopic roundworm that spent the last 46,000 years in suspended animation deep in the Siberian permafrost was revived and started having babies in a laboratory dish. By sequencing the genome of this Rip Van Winkle roundworm, scientists revealed it to be a new species of nematode, which is described in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-01-at-18.28.56.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11301,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/11301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}