Onthophagus nigriventris

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Two dung beetle species (O. nigriventris, O. Taurus) have become focal research species for labs in Europe, Australia, and the US, with over a hundred published papers on horn evolution, parental care behavior, sperm competition, tradeoffs between traits, antagonistic coevolution, and systematics. Roughly fifteen labs are now actively working with Onthophagus dung beetles. They have been used extensively for evo devo work, and between my lab and Armin Moczek’s, we are developing transcriptomic resources (we have sequenced the transcriptome for O. nigriventris and Armin has done the same for O. taurus). Armin's group (with Emilie Snell Rood) has developed arrays for taurus and used them on nigriventris, and we will be using RNAseq to look at differential gene expression in nigriventris. But we all invested our resources in expression — I.e. In transcriptomes and arrays, and not in genome sequencing. That has always been out of our reach. I suggest Onthophagus taurus or Onthophagus nigriventris would be ideal species for genomes. Douglas Emlen

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Onthophagus nigriventris
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Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onthophagus
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 476074
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