PRJNA532534
Scutiger cf. sikimmensis SH-2019 Transcriptome or Gene expression
Our target species is a megophryid toad, the Sikkim lazy toad (also called "Sikkim alpine toad”). Since there is great taxonomic uncertainty among Himalayan Scutiger, we refer to this specimen as Scutiger cf. sikkimensis. Megophryidae represent the sister group of Pelobatidae, and form a highly species-diverse family of oriental anurans with a basal phylogenetic position relative to the Neobatrachia. All species comprise stream-breeding, forest ground-dwellers with toad-like morphology. Lazy toads are a characteristic faunal element of the Himalaya-Tibet-Orogen. To allow future studies in population genomics and phylogenetics, for example using sequences capture approaches, we generated a new molecular marker set based on RNAseq for a Scutiger species from the Greater Himalaya.