{"id":167,"date":"2014-10-28T19:49:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-10-28T20:21:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:21:05","slug":"meet-mister-slate-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/meet-mister-slate-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Mister Slate Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/94ZWFBJ3vio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Mr. Slate Pencil to you. Meet a resident of Blazer Reef, the slate pencil sea urchin <em>Eucidaris tribuloides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During a routine afternoon feeding in the tank last Friday (Oct 24), Mr. Slate was observed releasing his gametes into the water column. \u00a0<!--more-->From this observation, we learned two things&#8230; one &#8211; our urchin is a male, as he is seen releasing sperm into the water column. \u00a0And two &#8211; \u00a0he seems to be healthy and happy as he is spending energy on gamete production.<\/p>\n<p>Previous work suggests that spawning in sea urchins is associated with the lunar cycle. \u00a0This observation was one day following the new moon. \u00a0Blazer Reef stays a warm 77.5<sup>o\u00a0<\/sup>F and salinity ranges from 33-34 ppt.<\/p>\n<p>You can explore the anatomy of a sea urchin here: <a title=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~seastar\/VirtualUrchin\/urchinanatomy.swf\" href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~seastar\/VirtualUrchin\/urchinanatomy.swf\">http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~seastar\/VirtualUrchin\/urchinanatomy.swf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Mr. Slate Pencil to you. Meet a resident of Blazer Reef, the slate pencil sea urchin <em>Eucidaris tribuloides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During a routine afternoon feeding in the tank last Friday (Oct 24), Mr. Slate was observed releasing his gametes into the water column. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/meet-mister-slate-pencil\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,15],"tags":[22,25,23,24],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-critterguide","category-echinoderms","category-news","tag-blazer-reef","tag-eucidaris-tribuloides","tag-sea-urchin","tag-spawning","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/tphenkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}