Abstract
In this study, a blood sample was obtained from a scimitar-horned oryx in Jinan Paomaling World of Wildlife and the complete nucleotide sequence of scimitar-horned oryx mitochondrial genome was determined. Sequence analysis showed that the genome structure was in accordance with other bovid species that it contained 22 tRNA genes, 12S rRNA gene, 16S rRNA gene, 13 protein-coding genes and 1 control region.
Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31172119), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2011CM009) and the Ph.D. programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (20113705110001).
Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.