Zhang Rui-Hua, Xu Ming-Ju, Wang Cun-Lian, Xu Tong, Wei Dong, Liu Bao-Jian, Wang Guo-Hua
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science College, Hebei North University , Zhangjiakou , PR China.
Mitochondrial DNA. 2015 Feb;26(1):162-3. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2014.1003851. Epub 2015 Jan 28.
The fancy pigeons are domesticated varieties of the rock pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. In the present work, we report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of fancy pigeon for the first time. The total length of the mitogenome was 17,233 bp with the base composition of 30.1% for A, 24.0% for T, 31.9% for C, and 14.0% for G and an A-T (54.2 %)-rich feature was detected. It harbored 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes and 1 non-coding control region (D-loop region). The arrangement of all genes was identical to the typical mitochondrial genomes of pigeon. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of fancy pigeon would serve as an important data set of the germplasm resources for further study.
观赏鸽是经过多年选育培育出的家鸽品种。在本研究中，我们首次报道了观赏鸽的完整线粒体基因组序列。线粒体基因组全长17233bp，碱基组成为：A占30.1%，T占24.0%，C占31.9%，G占14.0%，检测到富含A-T（54.2%）的特征。它包含13个蛋白质编码基因、2个核糖体RNA基因、22个转运RNA基因和1个非编码控制区（D-loop区）。所有基因的排列与鸽的典型线粒体基因组相同。观赏鸽的完整线粒体基因组序列将作为种质资源的重要数据集用于进一步研究。
