Table 2.

Initial candidate animal set and final breeding groups formed by using the described protocol

	Starting set of candidate macaques	Final membership, group 1	Final membership, group 2
Total	204	47	48
Breeding-age macaques (no. male, no. female)	21, 99	4, 27	7, 32
Juvenile macaques (no. male, no. female)	25, 59	0, 16	3, 6
No. of genetically high-value macaques (median genome uniqueness, median mean kinship with colony)	139 (12.60%, 0.0039)	47 (14.60%, 0.0043)	48 (12.15%, 0.0036)
No. of macaques with low genetic value (median genome uniqueness, median mean kinship with colony)	65 (0.80%, 0.0066)	0	0

The original request was for 2 groups, each containing 18 to 20 breeding-age female macaques older than 4 y (with their infants [younger than 1 y]), 3 or 4 breeding-age male animals 6 y or older, and 1 to 30 juveniles (age, 1 to 4 y) that will reach sexual maturity within the group.