Individual bobcat identification
Individual bobcats were identified in program COLONY (version 2.0.6.7,
Jones and Wang 2010) using the clone method to identify and group
matching genotypes (Wang 2016). Parameters used included male and female
monogamy with inbreeding and with clone; diploid and dioecious options
selected; the Full-Likelihood method with long run time selected; no
updating of allele frequencies; sibship scaling; and no sibship prior.
Probability of identity (PID) and probability of
identity for siblings (PIDsib) were calculated in
GenAlEx (version 6.503; Peakall and Smouse 2006, 2012) to assess the
power of the microsatellite marker set to identify individuals.