Onthophagus taurus Genome Assembly 1.0

The Baylor College of Medicine recently sequenced and annotated the Onthophagus taurus genome as part of the i5k pilot project.
This dataset presents the Onthophagus taurus genome v1.0. This assembly version is the pre-release version, prior to filtering and quality control by the National Center for Biotechnology Information's GenBank resource: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_000648695.1/. Assembly method details will be available in a forthcoming publication.
The dung beetle genus Onthophagus comprises with over 2,400 extant species the most speciose genus within the animal kingdom. O. taurus itself is the most studied dung beetle and a focal taxon for studies in evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genetics, behavioral ecology, evo-devo and developmental genetics.
Like many species within the genus it features extreme secondary sexual traits (horns) and extreme sexual dimorphism (cued by sex-specific development). At the same time this species possesses an equally remarkable (and representative) male dimorphism (cued entirely by larval nutrition) in which large males express huge horns which they use as weapons in male combat, whereas small males remain hornless, non-aggressive, and instead invest into enlarged testes and ejaculates.
Onthophagus beetles are emerging as a model system in evodevo and ecodevo, in particular with respect to the evolutionary developmental genetics of plasticity, pattern formation, trait integration, and growth regulation. Extensive transcriptomic data already exist for this as well as other species, alongside a growing number of functional studies using larval RNAi-mediated transcript depletion, which works easily and routinely across diverse species within the genus.
If you wish to use this dataset, please follow the Baylor College of Medicine's conditions for data use: https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/bcm-hgsc-conditions-use Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Onthophagus taurus genome assembly v1.0 fasta and agp files for contigs and scaffolds. File Name: Otaur_BCM_assembly_v1.zipResource Description: The attached tar.gz archive (Otaur_BCM_assembly_v1.tgz) contains the following files:

Otaur.contigs.fa.gz. This file contains the sequence information of the contigs of the Onthophagus taurus 1.0 assembly.

Otaur.scaffolds.fa.gz. This file contains the sequence information of the scaffolds of the Onthophagus taurus 1.0 assembly.

Otaur.agp.V2.gz. This file contains information linking the contigs and scaffolds for the Onthophagus taurus 1.0 assembly. A description of the agp format is available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/agp/AGP_Specification/

贝勒医学院近期作为i5k试点项目的一部分，对角甲科动物牛轭甲（Onthophagus taurus）的基因组进行了测序和注释。本数据集呈现了牛轭甲基因组v1.0版本。该组装版本为预发布版本，在经过美国国家生物技术信息中心GenBank资源（http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_000648695.1/）的过滤和质量控制之前。组装方法的详细信息将在即将发表的论文中公布。角甲科中的牛轭甲属拥有超过2,400个现生物种，是动物界中物种最为丰富的属之一。O. taurus 本身是最为研究的轭甲，也是进化生态学、进化遗传学、行为生态学、进化发育生物学和发育遗传学研究的热点分类群。如同属中的许多物种，它具有极端的次级性征（触角）和极端的性二形性（由性别特异性的发育所引导）。同时，该物种还拥有同样显著的（且具有代表性的）雄性二形性（完全由幼虫营养所引导），大型雄性表现出巨大的触角，它们将这些触角用作雄性争斗中的武器，而小型雄性则保持无角、非侵略性，并将精力投入到增大的睾丸和精液中。牛轭甲昆虫正在成为进化发育生物学和生态发育生物学的模型系统，尤其是在适应性、图案形成、性状整合和生长调节的进化发育遗传学方面。已经存在大量关于该属以及其它物种的转录组数据，以及越来越多的使用幼虫RNAi介导的转录减少的机能研究，该技术易于且常规地应用于属内不同物种。如需使用本数据集，请遵循贝勒医学院的数据使用条件：https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/bcm-hgsc-conditions-use。本数据集包含的资源：
资源标题：牛轭甲基因组组装v1.0的fasta和agp文件。
文件名：Otaur_BCM_assembly_v1.zip
资源描述：所附tar.gz压缩文件（Otaur_BCM_assembly_v1.tgz）包含以下文件：
Otaur.contigs.fa.gz。该文件包含牛轭甲1.0组装的contigs序列信息。
Otaur.scaffolds.fa.gz。该文件包含牛轭甲1.0组装的scaffolds序列信息。
Otaur.agp.V2.gz。该文件包含牛轭甲1.0组装中contigs和scaffolds之间的连接信息。agp格式的描述可在此获取：https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/agp/AGP_Specification/。