• DOI:10.1038/nature06784
• Corpus ID: 4402128

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

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  title={The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum},
  author={Stephen Richards and Richard A. Gibbs and George M. Weinstock and Susan J. Brown and Robin E. Denell and Richard W. Beeman and Richard A. Gibbs and Gregor Bucher and Markus Friedrich and Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen and Martin Klingler and Marc{\'e} D. Lorenzen and Siegfried Roth and Reinhard Schr{\"o}der and Diethard Tautz and Evgeny M. Zdobnov and Donna M. Muzny and Tony Attaway and Stephanie Bell and Christian Buhay and Mimi N. Chandrabose and Dean Chavez and Kerstin P Clerk-Blankenburg and Andrew Cree and Marvin Diep Dao and Clay Davis and Joseph Chacko and Huyen Dinh and Shannon Dugan-Rocha and Gerald R. Fowler and Toni T Garner and Jeffrey Garnes and Andreas Gnirke and Alica Hawes and Judith Hernandez and Sandra Hines and Michael E. Holder and Jennifer Hume and Shalini N. Jhangiani and Vandita Joshi and Ziad Khan and Laronda R. Jackson and Christie L. Kovar and Andrea Kowis and Sandy Lee and Lora R. Lewis and Jonathan S. Margolis and Margaret B. Morgan and Lynne V. Nazareth and Ngoc Bich Nguyen and Geoffrey O. Okwuonu and David Parker and San Juana Ruiz and Jireh Santibanez and Jo{\"e}l Savard and Steven E. Scherer and Brian Schneider and Erica Sodergren and Selina Vattahil and Donna Villasana and Courtney Sherell White and Rita A. Wright and Yoonseong Park and Jeffrey C. Lord and Brenda Oppert and Sue Brown and Liangjiang Wang and George M. Weinstock and Yue Liu and Kim C. Worley and Christine G. Elsik and Justin T. Reese and Eran Elhaik and Giddy Landan and Dan Graur and Peter Arensburger and Peter W Atkinson and Jim Beidler and Jeffery P. Demuth and Douglas W. Drury and Yu-Zhou Du and Haruhiko Fujiwara and Vincenza Maselli and Mizuko Osanai and Hugh M. Robertson and Zhijian Jake Tu and Jian-jun Wang and Suzhi Wang and Henry Song and Lan Zhang and Doreen Werner and Mario Stanke and Burkhard Morgenstern and Victor V. Solovyev and P. S. Kosarev and Garth R. Brown and Hsiu-Chuan Chen and Olga D. Ermolaeva and Wratko Hlavina and Yu. L. Kapustin and Boris Kiryutin and Paul A. Kitts and Donna R. Maglott and Kim D. Pruitt and Victor Sapojnikov and Alexandre Souvorov and Aaron J. Mackey and Robert M. Waterhouse and Stefan Wyder and Evgenia V. Kriventseva and Tatsuhiko Kadowaki and Peer Bork and Manuel Aranda and Riyue Bao and Anke Beermann and Nicola Berns and Renata Bolognesi and F. Bonneton and Daniel Bopp and T Butts and Arnaud Chaumot and Robin E. Denell and David E. K. Ferrier and Cassondra M Gordon and Marek Jindra and Que Lan and H. Michael G. Lattorff and Vincent Laudet and Cornelia von Levetsow and Zhenyi Liu and Rebekka Lutz and Jeremy A. Lynch and Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca and Nico Posnien and Rolf Reuter and Johannes B. Schinko and Christian Schmitt and Michael Schoppmeier and Teresa D. Shippy and Franck Simonnet and Henrique Marques-Souza and Yoshinori Tomoyasu and Jochen Trauner and Maurijn van der Zee and Michel Vervoort and Nadine Wittkopp and Ernst A. Wimmer and Xiaoyun Yang and Andrew K. Jones and David B. Sattelle and Paul R. Ebert and David R. Nelson and Jeffrey G. Scott and Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan and Karl J. Kramer and Yasuyuki Arakane and Qingsong Zhu and David G. Hogenkamp and Radhika Dixit and Haobo Jiang and Zhen Zou and Jeremy L. Marshall and Elena N. Elpidina and Konstantin S Vinokurov and Cris Oppert and Jay D. Evans and Zhiqiang Lu and Picheng Zhao and Niranji Sumathipala and Boran Altincicek and Andreas Vilcinskas and Michael Williams and Dan Hultmark and Charles H{\'e}tru and Frank M. Hauser and Giuseppe Cazzamali and Michael Williamson and Bin Li and Yoshiaki Tanaka and Reinhard Predel and Susanne Neupert and Joachim Schachtner and Peter Verleyen and Florian Raible and Kimberly K. O. Walden and Sergio Angeli and Sylvain For{\^e}t and Stefan Schuetz and Ryszard Maleszka and Sherry Miller and Daniela Grossmann},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  volume={452},
  pages={949-955}
}

• S. Richards, R. Gibbs, +188 authors Daniela Grossmann
• Published 24 April 2008
• Biology
• Nature

Tribolium castaneum is a member of the most species-rich eukaryotic order, a powerful model organism for the study of generalized insect development, and an important pest of stored agricultural products. We describe its genome sequence here. This omnivorous beetle has evolved the ability to interact with a diverse chemical environment, as shown by large expansions in odorant and gustatory receptors, as well as P450 and other detoxification enzymes. Development in Tribolium is more representative of other insects than is Drosophila, a fact reflected in gene content and function. For example, Tribolium has retained more ancestral genes involved in cell–cell communication than Drosophila, some being expressed in the growth zone crucial for axial elongation in short-germ development. Systemic RNA interference in T. castaneum functions differently from that in Caenorhabditis elegans, but nevertheless offers similar power for the elucidation of gene function and identification of targets for selective insect control.