Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources (Jul 2019)

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Partridge Shank chicken (Galliformes: Phasianidae)

  • Min Wang,
  • Ling Wang,
  • Cheng-Qiao Wang,
  • Sheng-Hao Wan,
  • Hu Wang,
  • Jie-Yu Sun,
  • Jian-Qiang Tang,
  • Xiao-Chun Zhang,
  • Hai-Jun Zhang,
  • Jun Li,
  • Shu-Ying Peng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1673232
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 3298 – 3300

Abstract

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Partridge Shank chicken is a valuable broiler breed in China. The first complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence of Partridge Shank chicken had been obtained using PCR amplification, sequencing and assembling. The complete mitochondrial genome was 16,788 bp in length, with the base composition of 30.2% for A, 23.7% for T, 32.5% for C and 13.5% for G. It exhibited the typical mitochondrial structure, including 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and a non-coding control region (D-loop region). The phylogenetic tree construced with maximum-likelihood (ML) method based on the complete chicken mitochondrial genomes showed that the 26 chicken breeds could be divided into two groups.

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