Abstract
The complete mitochondrial genome of a wild red deer from Helan Mountain, China was sequenced and annotated newly. The total length of the mitochondrial genome is 16,428 bp, with a base composition of 33.3% A, 28.8% T, 24.4% C and 13.5% G, and it contains 12S rRNA gene, 16S rRNA gene, 22 tRNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes and 1 control region.
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Zhijun Hou for the help of portion data Analysis.
Declaration of interest
This research was supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2572014CA03, DL13EA01)”, and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31372221, 30970371).