Declaration Dr. Thomas H. Pringle - Buffalo Field Campaign

Appendices
2-1 Characteristics of microsatellite loci amplified in the multiplex PCR; primers, and
chromosome location (Halbert 2003). Allele ranges, and number of alleles (NA)
found in the eight radio-collared bison used to assess amplification success and
error rates for this study………………………………………………………….29
2-2 Amplification rates (AS) reported in our study and for other species with non-
pellet form feces (Reed et al. 1997; Wasser et al. 1997; Kohn et al. 1999; Bradley
et al. 2000; Lathuillière et al. 2001; Morin et al. 2001; Parsons 2001; Lucchini et
al. 2002; Murphy et al. 2002; Eggert et al. 2003; Fernando et al. 2003; Buchan et
al. 2005)………………………………………………………………………….29
2-3 Allelic dropout (AD) rates reported in our study and for other species with non-
pellet form feces (Morin et al. 2001; Parsons 2001: Lucchini et al. 2002; Murphy
et al. 2002; Eggert et al. 2003; Fernando et al. 2003; Buchan et al. 2005)...…....30
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