| Frogs are traded not only for meat, but they are also being caught and killed for use in making novelties and curios for the tourist industry such as purses and key chains. The skin of frog is also used in the leather and glue trade. In China thirty two species are recognised as components of traditional Chinese medicine. The selling of Fejervarya limnocharis is common as food in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia but is widely regarded as culinary delicacies in most region of the world including Europe, USA and Australia. The present study describes the use of 12SrRNA as marker for identification of species of Fejervarya based on molecular data like haplotypes, haplotype diversity, conservation sites, variable sites, parsimony informative sites, singleton sites, nuclear diversity, Tajima’s d, average number of nucleotide difference, In Del polymorphism. Road killed and dead 15 specimens of species of Fejervarya from DehraDun, Uttarakhand, India were collected in the present study and processed for molecular analysis using 12SrRNA as marker and other genetic data including 21 taxa of Fejervarya. The work is useful in identification of species and the origin of wildlife parts and products, so that conservation strategies can be adopted for the control of overexploitation of the species and also to develop strategies by regulating the food consumption.
Keywords: 12srRNA, Fejervarya, Molecular characterization, Wildlife parts and products
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