Evidence that pairing with genetically similar mates is maladaptive in a monogamous bird

Table 3 Summary of the ten microsatellite loci.

Locus	Repeated motif	Allele Sizes	No. of alleles	No. of ind.	H_exp	H_obs	p-value	Genebank Accession No.
K6	(AC)₄T(TA)₁₂	111–139	15	593	0.86	0.82	N.S.	AY083596
K16	(TG)₄(TA)₈(GA)₁₀	151–187	13	591	0.86	0.72	< 0.0001	AY083597
K31	(TG)₁₃	176–225	26	580	0.88	0.87	N.S.	AY083598
K32	(GA)₂(GT)₁₂	116–188	35	596	0.90	0.90	N.S.	AY083599
K67	(CA)₂(TA)₉	135–147	7	463	0.48	0.43	N.S.	AY083601
K71	(AC)₁₁	143–159	7	593	0.65	0.69	N.S.	AY083602
RBG20	(GT)₁₃	186–199	10	572	0.68	0.67	N.S.	AY091849
RBG27	(GT)₁₂	207–223	9	593	0.73	0.71	N.S.	AY091851
RBG29	(GT)₁₃	151–169	9	584	0.65	0.63	0.005	AY091853
RBG39	(AC)₁₁	180–190	6	597	0.55	0.50	N.S.	AY091852

K6, K16, K31, K32, K67 and K71 were first described in the black-legged kittiwake [59]), whereas RBG20, RBG27, RBG29 and RBG39 were sequenced from the red-billed gull, Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus [60]). H_exp and H_obs are the expected and observed heterozygosities computed by GENEPOP, and we give also the p-value the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test (after Bonferroni correction for multiple tests).

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