Genome evolution is associated with nutrition-responsive regulatory development in horned dung beetles

The Scarabaeinae, or true dung beetles, are a hyper-diverse clade of insects of ecological, evolutionary, and agricultural significance and have long served as informative models of evolutionary ecology and development. Perhaps the most conspicuous of their unique traits are head horns, novel structures that serve as secondary sexual weapons, exhibit extraordinary developmental plasticity, and have fueled one of the most dramatic morphological radiations in the animal kingdom. In this study, we investigate the evolutionary basis for dung beetle traits - including horns - via comparative genomic and developmental assays. We present chromosome-level genome assemblies of three dung beetle species in the species-rich Onthophagini tribe (> 2500 extant species) including Onthophagus taurus, Onthophagus sagittarius, and Digitonthophagus gazella. Contrasting these assemblies with seven other species across the order Coleoptera identifies rapidly evolving gene families associated with metabol..., , , # Genome evolution is associated with nutrition-responsive regulatory development in horned dung beetles

This dataset includes genome annotation files generated for a de-novo genome assembly project of dung beetle genomes.
This project includes de-novo genome assemblies for *Onthophagus taurus* (Otau), *Onthophagus sagittarius* (Osag), and *Digitonthophagus gazella* (Dgaz).

### FILE TYPES

For each of the three dung beetle species (listed above), the following file eight types are available:

1. *.fasta.gz: (compressed) genome fasta file

2. *_masked.fasta.gz: (compressed) genome fasta file in which repetitive elements are soft-masked (lower-case)

3. *.gtf: GTF file describing the genomic locations of gene features identified within the assembly

4. *_repeats.fa: library of repetitive elements identified in each species' genome

5. *_repeats.gff.gz: (compressed) GFF file describing the genomic location of repetitive elements within the genome

6. *_nucleotides.fasta: fasta file...