{"id":2545,"date":"2011-06-28T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2011-06-28T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:33:29","slug":"2545","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2011\/06\/28\/2545\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls alligator gar research continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Allyse Ferrara, associate professor of biological sciences at Nicholls State University, injects hormones into an adult alligator gar at the LSU Aquaculture Research Station near Baton Rouge on Thursday, June 23. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2011\/06\/Gar.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2546\" title=\"Alligator Gar Spawning at LSU 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2011\/06\/Gar-540x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferrara and Nicholls graduate student Kent Bollfrass spent the morning at the LSU station injecting hormones to induce spawning in alligator gar for larvae research. Collected by Nicholls, the gar are housed\u00a0at\u00a0the LSU\u00a0research station, facilitating collaborative research efforts\u00a0between the two institutions. For additional information, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/bayousphere\/index.htm\">www.nicholls.edu\/bayousphere\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Allyse Ferrara, associate professor of biological sciences at Nicholls State University, injects hormones into an adult alligator gar at the LSU Aquaculture Research Station near Baton Rouge on Thursday, June 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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