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Nicrophorus vespilloides

    Summary
    Type
    organism
    Genus
    Nicrophorus
    Species
    vespilloides
    Common Name
    Common Sexton Beetle
    Description

    The burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides has been used as a model to understand the evolution of many complex social behaviors; such as, parental care, sibling-sibling conflict, parent-offspring conflict, mating conflict, and the genetic architecture of these behaviors. In recent years several laboratories have started to make N. vespilloides a molecular tractable organism. This page contains several genetic and genomic resources for N. vespilloides as well as curation tools to help the N. vespilloides research community coordinate efforts to improve these resources.

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    Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783 by TheWCG is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License(link is external).

    Publication
    Cunningham CB, Ji L, Wiberg RA, Shelton J, McKinney EC, Parker DJ, Meagher RB, Benowitz KM, Roy-Zokan EM, Ritchie MG, Brown SJ, Schmitz RJ, Moore AJ. The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae). . Genome biology and evolution. 2015 Oct 09; 7(12):3383-96.
    Organism Image
    Assembly Stats
    Contig N50
    NA
    GC Content
    31.83
    Scaffold N50
    122407
    Other Information
    Community Contact
    Christopher B Cunningham, University of Georgia
    Analyses
    Name Program
    Nicrophorus vespilloides genome assembly Nicrophorus vespilloides1 (GCF_001412225.1) Platanus, PBJelly, Stitch
    NCBI Nicrophorus vespilloides Annotation Release 100 NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
    Official Gene Set v1.0 MAKER
    Functional annotation of NCBI Nicrophorus vespilloides Annotation Release 100 AgBase functional annotation pipeline