Figure 1
Flowchart describing the procedure of developing SSR markers and aligning illegally-felled timbers to victim trees of C. taiwanensis. (a) 35 SSR markers specific to individual identification were selected from the DNA and RNA libraries of C. taiwanensis. The cumulative random matching rate of the system reaches CPI = 5.596 × 10–12, which can be used to identify 18 million individuals with a credibility of 99.99% (b) 11 seized timbers were compared with 7 victim trees, and 3 timbers were matched with 3 victim trees successfully. The values of credibility in all matched cases were over 95%. (N number of individuals, P number of populations).
