Figure 2

Simulated rates of paternity assignment in the European bison for varying number of single nucleotide polymorphism loci: (a) most polymorphic subsets of 960 loci, and (b) randomly selected subsets of 960 loci. In each panel, the assignment rate is shown separately for assignment of fathers alone and fathers given known mothers. The dashed line represents the theoretical maximum assignment rate of 50%, the proportion of candidate parents sampled (see Figure 1 for further details). Note that unlike Figure 1, the x axis is on a log scale.