Abstract
The mitochondrial DNA of Naumann’s thrush Turdus naumanni (Passeriformes: Turdidae) is 16,750 bp long with A + T contents of 52.79%. It has typical circular mitochondrial genomes that encode the complete set of 37 genes which are usually found in birds. All protein-coding genes use the standard mitochondrial initiation codon ATG, except for ND2 and COI start with GTG. 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 tRNASer(AGN) and tRNALys(CUN), which lack the “DHU” stem, only forming a simple loop.
Declaration of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 31172117) and The Graduate Students’ Innovative Program of Anhui University (YQH 100268).