Table 4.

Combined exclusion probabilities of microsatellites for parentage analysis

No. markers	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Total PE	0.999	0.998	0.997	0.988	0.982	0.946	0.925	0.876	0.752
	AG5	AG5	AG5	AG5	AG5	AG5	AG5	AG5	AG5
	AC1	AC1	AC1	AC1	AC1	AC1	AC1	AC1
	A10	A10	A10	A10	A10	A10	A10
	H08	H08	H08	H08	H08	H08
	AC5	AC5	AC5	AC5	AC5
	AG2	AG2	AG2	AG2
	AT1	AT1	AT1
	B07	B07
	AG3

Each column represents one panel of microsatellite markers. Exclusion probabilities decrease as one locus is successively removed. Loci showing evidence of null alleles (AG3, B07, AT1, and AG2) were removed first. Subsequently, loci were removed in order (lowest to highest) of locus-specific exclusion probabilities (Table 3).

Total exclusion probably across k loci (Jamieson and Taylor 1997): P_E = 1 – (1 – P₁) (1 – P₂) (1 – P₃) … (1 – P_k).