“…We screened in triplicate 14 microsatellite loci (CSSM22, CSSM16, CSSM19, BM1818, Cer14, ILSTS06, CSSM66, Haut14, CSPS115, INRA35, ETH225, CSRM60, BM888, BM4208) reported to be polymorphic in European red deer (Kuehn et al, 2003; Zhou et al, 2015). We selected these markers based on their reported polymorphisms, chromosome locations and amplicon sizes in multiple studies on red deer (Bishop et al, 1994; Moore et al, 1994; DeWoody et al, 1995; Thieven et al, 1995; Kühn et al, 1996; Vanessa et al, 2014).…”