{"id":670,"date":"2016-12-13T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/?p=670"},"modified":"2016-12-13T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:16:07","slug":"a-truly-multicultural-community-on-svalbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"A truly multicultural community on Svalbard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study on blue mussels from various regions in the Arctic have unraveled a very surprising discovery &#8211; there are many migrants from the Mediterranean on Svalbard! We used to think that the blue mussels on Svalbard were simply a northern extension of the Atlantic species <em>Mytilus edulis<\/em>, but new research have demonstrated that a considerable part of the gene pool on Svalbard comes directly from the Mediterranean, more precisely the species <em>Mytilus galloprovincialis. <\/em>In a time when some countries are building walls to prevent immigration from the south, Svalbard is an example of a community that receives immigrants on a daily basis, and where the immigrants are settling down without any problems. Perhaps it is true what they say about the coming wall between USA and Mexico &#8211; it defines where the borderline to stupid is: Canada and Mexico! Read more about the blue mussels on Svalbard <a href=\"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mathiesen_et_al-2016.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study on blue mussels from various regions in the Arctic have unraveled a very surprising discovery &#8211; there are many migrants from the Mediterranean on Svalbard! We used to think that the blue mussels on Svalbard were simply a northern extension of the Atlantic species Mytilus edulis, but new research have demonstrated that a considerable part of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arctos.uit.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Peter-Leopold_DSD_4534-e1481623959173.jpg?fit=4665%2C1903&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h8E1-aO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctos.uit.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}