{"id":22217,"date":"2019-05-17T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=22217"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:51:24","slug":"an-international-team-of-scientists-with-bulgarian-participation-with-a-new-discovery-on-bedbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=22217&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"An international team of scientists with Bulgarian participation with a new discovery on bedbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21945 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1-200x180.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1-400x359.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1-600x539.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gr1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a>An international team of scientists from four continents: Europe, Asia, North and South America with Bulgarian participation published the results of a study of dozens of bedbug species on 16 May 2019. Dr. Nikolay Simov from the National Museum of Natural History at BAS is the only Bulgarian invited scientist in a team from 14 scientific institutions in 10 countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, UK, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, USA, the Czech Republic and Chile).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists united their expertise and efforts in the study of different DNA sequences and presented the result in an article for the prestigious scientific journal CURRENT BIOLOGY. The team&#8217;s research leads to the conclusion that ordinary and tropical bed bugs are much older than humans. As a result of these studies, the complex phylogenetic relationships in the family of bed bugs and their relationship with humans as their hosts were established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study also reveals that new species of bed bugs recognize people as a host every half a million years. When this happens, the bugs take advantage of their new hosts (in this case the people) without giving up the old ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists from four continents: Europe, Asia, North and South America with Bulgarian participation published the results of a study of dozens of bedbug species on 16 May 2019. Dr. Nikolay Simov from the National Museum of Natural History at BAS is the only Bulgarian invited scientist in a team from 14 scientific institutions in 10 countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, UK, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, USA, the Czech Republic and Chile).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiversity-bioresources-and-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22218,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22217\/revisions\/22218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}