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The genome and methylome of a beetle with complex social behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae)
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dc.contributor.author | Cunningham, Christopher B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ji, Lexiang | |
dc.contributor.author | Wiberg, R. Axel W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Shelton, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.author | McKinney, Elizabeth C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Parker, Darren J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Meagher, Richard B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Benowitz, Kyle M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Roy-Zokan, Eileen M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ritchie, Michael G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Susan J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Schmitz, Robert J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Allen J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-19T09:30:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-07-19T09:30:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-12-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cunningham , C B , Ji , L , Wiberg , R A W , Shelton , J , McKinney , E C , Parker , D J , Meagher , R B , Benowitz , K M , Roy-Zokan , E M , Ritchie , M G , Brown , S J , Schmitz , R J & Moore , A J 2015 , ' The genome and methylome of a beetle with complex social behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae) ' , Genome Biology and Evolution , vol. 7 , no. 12 , pp. 3383-3396 . https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv194 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-6653 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 244419687 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 1051b075-c0cd-4d41-b78c-42eb773ebb03 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:2BD7DA2A5AD2FAA0B02F4EF628BD9D33 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84977619468 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-7913-8675/work/46761117 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000378546000008 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/9162 | |
dc.description | This work was supported by the University of Georgia’s Office of the Vice-President for Research to A.J.M. and R.J.S., and a National Science Foundation grant (IOS-1354358) to A.J.M. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Testing for conserved and novel mechanisms underlying phenotypic evolution requires a diversity of genomes available for comparison spanning multiple independent lineages. For example, complex social behavior in insects has been investigated primarily with eusocial lineages, nearly all of which are Hymenoptera. If conserved genomic influences on sociality do exist, we need data from a wider range of taxa that also vary in their levels of sociality. Here, we present the assembled and annotated genome of the subsocial beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, a species long used to investigate evolutionary questions of complex social behavior. We used this genome to address two questions. First, do aspects of life history, such as using a carcass to breed, predict overlap in gene models more strongly than phylogeny? We found that the overlap in gene models was similar between N. vespilloides and all other insect groups regardless of life history. Second, like other insects with highly developed social behavior but unlike other beetles, does N. vespilloides have DNA methylation? We found strong evidence for an active DNA methylation system. The distribution of methylation was similar to other insects with exons having the most methylated CpGs. Methylation status appears highly conserved; 85% of the methylated genes in N. vespilloides are also methylated in the hymentopteran Nasonia vitripennis. The addition of this genome adds a coleopteran resource to answer questions about the evolution and mechanistic basis of sociality and to address questions about the potential role of methylation in social behavior. | |
dc.format.extent | 14 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Genome Biology and Evolution | en |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | Burying beetle | en |
dc.subject | Epigenetics | en |
dc.subject | Parental care | en |
dc.subject | Sociality | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | The genome and methylome of a beetle with complex social behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae) | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv194 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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