Trypoxylus dichotomus

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This beetle (formerly Allomyrina dichotoma, now Trypoxylus dichotomus) is a huge, charismatic species with a spectacular horn. It is THE most popular and abundant of the rhino or stag beetles in most of Asia, where it is reared as a pet. It is a very popular research species for work on animal behavior and sexual selection, as well as for protein biochemistry work on Lectin structure and function. We have sequenced and assembled a transcriptome (with Laura Corley Lavine, Ian Warren, Cris Vera and Jim Marden). We have cloned the insulin receptor gene and performed RNAi knockdown experiments and shown that insulin signaling is part of the mechanism coupling horn growth with nutrition. We are not likely to have funds to sequence the genome of this species, but such a resource would be beneficial to a large number of researchers worldwide (and a tremendous help to us). Douglas Emlen

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Trypoxylus dichotomus
Japanese rhinoceros beetle


Taxonomic classification
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Trypoxylus
NCBI taxid: 485px-US-NLM-NCBI-Logo.png 273928
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