Next-generation resequencing the complete mitochondrial genome of Japanese quail ().

As the development of the new generation of sequencing (NGS) technologies, it has been used for standard sequencing applications more and more popular. We used NGS technologies to resequence the complete mitochondrial genome of Japanese quail. The complete mitochondrial genome of Japanese quail is a 16,668 bp circular molecule, which contains 37 typical mitochondrial genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs, and 22 tRNAs) and a 1156 bp D-loop. Its gene arrangement pattern is identical with typical other Galliformes. All protein-coding genes start with an ATG codon except , which start with GTG. TAA is the most frequent stop codon, although end with TAG, and and end with AGG, and end with TGC. The mtDNA sequence contains 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA of rRNA. Except for and without the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm, all tRNAs could be folded into canonical cloverleaf secondary structures. has close relative with .