title: Complete mitochondrial genome of Tree Sparrow Passer montanus saturatus (Passeriformes: Passeridae).
abstract: Tree Sparrow Passer montanus is an Eurasian distribution passerine bird, which has 9 subspecies. In this study, we determined the complete mitochondrial genome of Passer montanus saturatus. The mitochondrial DNA is 16,904 bp long with A + T contents of 52.56%. The mitochondrial genome is typical circular that encodes the complete set of 37 genes. All protein-coding genes use the standard mitochondrial initiation codon ATG, except for COI starts with GTG and ND3 starts with ATA. TAN is the most frequent stop codon, and AGN and T- - are also occurred very common. All tRNAs possess the classic clover leaf secondary structure except for tRNA(Ser (AGN)) and tRNA(Cys (CUN)), which lack the "DHU" stem, only forming a simple loop.
authors.affiliation: a School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei , P. R. China and.|b Anhui Biodiversity Information Center , Hefei , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: a School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei , P. R. China and.|b Anhui Biodiversity Information Center , Hefei , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: a School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei , P. R. China and.|b Anhui Biodiversity Information Center , Hefei , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Lizhi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: a School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei , P. R. China and.|b Anhui Biodiversity Information Center , Hefei , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.affiliation: a School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University , Hefei , P. R. China and.|b Anhui Biodiversity Information Center , Hefei , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Hongyu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020029:Base Pairing / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D046370:Sparrows / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Complete mitochondrial genome; Passer montanus saturatus; gene arrangement; tree sparrow