Adrián Talavera, Marc Palmada-Flores, Bernat Burriel-Carranza, Emilio Valbuena-Ureña, Gabriel Mochales-Riaño, Dean C Adams, Héctor Tejero-Cicuéndez, Anna Soler-Membrives, Fèlix Amat, Daniel Guinart, Francesc Carbonell, Elena Obon, Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, Salvador Carranza
The Montseny brook newt ( Calotriton arnoldi ), considered the most endangered amphibian in Europe, is a relict salamandrid species endemic to a small massif located in northeastern Spain. Although conservation efforts should always be guided by genomic studies, those are yet scarce among urodeles, hampered by the extreme sizes of their genomes. Here, we present the third available genome assembly for the order Caudata, and the first genomic study of the species and its sister taxon, the Pyrenean brook newt ( Calotriton asper ), combining whole-genome and ddRADseq data...
January 19, 2024: IScience