{"600729":{"#nid":"600729","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hide or Get Eaten","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Psssst, mud crabs, time to hide because blue crabs are coming to eat you!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s the warning the prey get from the predators\u0026rsquo; urine when it spikes with high concentrations of two chemicals, which researchers have identified in a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2018\/01\/03\/1713901115\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond decoding crab-eat-crab alarm triggers, pinpointing these compounds for the first time opens new doors to understanding how chemicals invisibly regulate marine wildlife. Insights from the study by investigators at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including Petit Institute researcher Julia Kubanek, could someday contribute to better management of crab and oyster fisheries, and help specify which pollutants upset them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn coastal marshes, these urinary alarm chemicals, trigonelline and homarine, help to regulate the ecological balance of who eats how many of whom \u0026ndash; and not just crabs. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2018\/01\/08\/hide-or-get-eaten-urine-chemicals-tell-mud-crabs\u0022\u003ERead the entire story right here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Chemical signals from predators\u0027 urine warns prey of impending doom"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChemical signals from predators\u0026#39; urine warns prey of impending doom\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chemical signals from predators\u0027 urine warns prey of impending doom"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2018-01-12 16:26:09","changed_gmt":"2018-01-12 16:26:09","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600633":{"id":"600633","type":"image","title":"Julia Kubanek","body":null,"created":"1515612813","gmt_created":"2018-01-10 19:33:33","changed":"1515612813","gmt_changed":"2018-01-10 19:33:33","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228964","name":"KUBANEK DSC_4396.2017.square1.200.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KUBANEK%20DSC_4396.2017.square1.200.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KUBANEK%20DSC_4396.2017.square1.200.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":41227,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KUBANEK%20DSC_4396.2017.square1.200.jpg?itok=g1oSPdD7"}}},"media_ids":["600633"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}