Table A2.

Model selection table for testing hypotheses regarding the effect of genetic ancestry on survival of kittens and older panthers based on 3 ancestry categories. These analyses were performed on a subset of the data (excluding panthers before 1995 and panthers of unknown ancestry). For each model, we present the number of parameters (K), the difference from the top model in Akaike’s Information Criterion adjusted for small sample size and overdispersion (ΔQAIC_c), and the model QAIC_c weight. See Table A1 for descriptions of the covariate models and Table 4 for the base model. All models estimate constant recapture rates and recovery rates that differ between kittens and older panthers (p(.)r(k, s&a)). Model 1 in Table 2 was used as the base model for these analyses. Ancestry categories are defined in Table A1.

Survival Model	K	ΔQAICc	Weight
1. base + Ancest2	9	0.00	0.367
2. base + Ancest1	10	1.15	0.207
3. base + s&a:Ancest2	9	1.86	0.145
4. base + k:Ancest2 + s&a:Ancest2	10	2.04	0.132
5. base + k:Ancest3 + s&a:Ancest2	10	2.52	0.104
6. base + Ancest3	9	5.81	0.020
7. base	8	6.46	0.015
8. base + k:Ancest3	9	6.91	0.012