TABLE 2.

Annealing temperature of telomere primer and single copy gene primer.

	Annealing temperature (°C)
Common name	Telomere gene	36B4 gene
Dugong	65.0	65.5
Blue whale	64.6	68.0
Bryde’s whale	64.0	68.0
Omura’s whale	61.9	67.8
Common bottlenose dolphin	61.9	65.5
Fraser’s dolphin	65.0	65.5
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin	61.9	65.5
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin	65.0	68.0
Irrwaddy dolphin	64.6	68.0
Common dolphin	63.1	68.0
Pantropical spotted dolphin	64.0	67.0
Rough-toothed dolphin	65.0	67.0
Spinner dolphin	65.0	68.0
Striped dolphin	65.0	65.5
False killer whale	60.4	68.0
Risso’s dolphin	63.1	67.0
Short-finned pilot whale	64.6	65.5
Dwarf sperm whale	64.6	68.0
Pygmy sperm whale	65.0	68.0
Finless porpoise	64.6	65.5
Sperm whale	64.6	67.8
Blainville’s beaked whale	63.1	65.7
Cuvier’s beaked whale	64.6	68.0