Table 3.
Summary of the ten microsatellite loci.
| Locus | Repeated motif | Allele Sizes | No. of alleles | No. of ind. | Hexp | Hobs | p-value | Genebank Accession No. |
| K6 | (AC)4T(TA)12 | 111–139 | 15 | 593 | 0.86 | 0.82 | N.S. | AY083596 |
| K16 | (TG)4(TA)8(GA)10 | 151–187 | 13 | 591 | 0.86 | 0.72 | < 0.0001 | AY083597 |
| K31 | (TG)13 | 176–225 | 26 | 580 | 0.88 | 0.87 | N.S. | AY083598 |
| K32 | (GA)2(GT)12 | 116–188 | 35 | 596 | 0.90 | 0.90 | N.S. | AY083599 |
| K67 | (CA)2(TA)9 | 135–147 | 7 | 463 | 0.48 | 0.43 | N.S. | AY083601 |
| K71 | (AC)11 | 143–159 | 7 | 593 | 0.65 | 0.69 | N.S. | AY083602 |
| RBG20 | (GT)13 | 186–199 | 10 | 572 | 0.68 | 0.67 | N.S. | AY091849 |
| RBG27 | (GT)12 | 207–223 | 9 | 593 | 0.73 | 0.71 | N.S. | AY091851 |
| RBG29 | (GT)13 | 151–169 | 9 | 584 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 0.005 | AY091853 |
| RBG39 | (AC)11 | 180–190 | 6 | 597 | 0.55 | 0.50 | N.S. | AY091852 |
K6, K16, K31, K32, K67 and K71 were first described in the black-legged kittiwake [59]), whereas RBG20, RBG27, RBG29 and RBG39 were sequenced from the red-billed gull, Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus [60]). Hexp and Hobs are the expected and observed heterozygosities computed by GENEPOP, and we give also the p-value the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test (after Bonferroni correction for multiple tests).