analysis of the sequence variation of cytochrome b gene indicated that there is no evidence of insertions or deletions, i . e ., they are all of identical length of 1143 bp in all the sequences of cytochrome b gene . further, the sequences can be fully translated into amino acid using chicken mitochondrial codon without nonsense mutations or intervening stop codons . the 1143 bp cytochrome b alignment contained 416 variable sites, of which 306 were parsimony informative sites with the strongest variable in third codon positions and less variable in first and second codon positions 細胞色素b基因序列變異分析表明:1)雁形目鳥類細胞色素b基因全序列長度一致,無插入和缺失:對照雞線粒體密碼子系統(tǒng)全序列能全部翻譯成氨基酸序列,無無義突變,全序列內(nèi)部無終止密碼子;2)序列比對后1143加,含416個核著酸變異位點,306個簡約信息位點,其中處于密碼子第三位的變異最大,第一位和第二位堿基的變異相對較小。