{"id":29425,"date":"2026-11-06T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/?p=29425"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:22:11","slug":"evolutionary-history-and-genetic-basis-of-spruce-diversification-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/06\/evolutionary-history-and-genetic-basis-of-spruce-diversification-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary history and genetic basis of spruce diversification revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The genus Picea (spruce) is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and is a dominant component of boreal and montane forests. Understanding the evolutionary processes that have shaped diversification and regional differentiation across the genus requires a well-resolved phylogeny of Picea. However, the evolutionary history of Picea has long been obscure due to conflicting genetic signals.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-evolutionary-history-genetic-basis-spruce.html\">Go to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The genus Picea (spruce) is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and is a dominant component of boreal and montane forests. Understanding the evolutionary processes that have shaped diversification and regional differentiation across the genus requires a well-resolved phylogeny of Picea. However, the evolutionary history of Picea has long been obscure due to conflicting genetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":29426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1697,736],"tags":[4039,595,1698],"class_list":["post-29425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plantsanimals","category-science-news","tag-a","tag-history","tag-plantsanimals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29427,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29425\/revisions\/29427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}