Table 2.

Characteristics of microsatellite loci used to estimate relatedness in Mongolian gerbils

Locus	Allele size (base pairs)	N a	H o	H e	PIC	DP	FIS
Mungµ1	212–232	10	0.720	0.764	0.734	0.917	−0.223
Mungµ2	107–129	10	0.829	0.848	0.822	0.959	−0.194
Mungµ3	125–149	9	0.683	0.688	0.683	–	−0.199
Mungµ4	204–220	8	0.646	0.659	0.646	0.847	−0.128
Mungµ5	161–185	11	0.805	0.808	0.780	0.936	−0.261
Mungµ6	113–131	10	0.829	0.802	0.770	0.933	−0.230
Mungµ7	162–184	11	0.927	0.856	0.833	0.962	−0.145
Mungµ9	119–205	9	0.793	0.812	0.780	0.941	−0.311

Na, number of alleles; Ho, observed heterozygosity; He, expected heterozygosity; PIC, polymorphic information content; DP, discriminatory power; F_IS, inbreeding coefficient.