butions for time since population decline from independent MCMC runs for Indo-Chinese tigers under Storz and Beaumont method. Details of the models are given in Table S6.
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Information on samples used in this study.
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Species-specific mitochondrial primers designed and used in this study.
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Information of 10 microsatellite loci used in this study.
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Linear models (Beaumont method).
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Exponential models (Beaumont method).
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Exponential models (Storz and Beaumont method).
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We thank the forest departments from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Chattishgarh, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam, and Orissa for permissions and assistance with sample collection. We thank N. Samba Kumar, A. J. T. Johnsingh, J. Krishnaswamy, N. Mukherjee, A. Kumar, and many field researchers for assistance in procuring samples. We thank T. Shivanand, S. Mukherjee, D. Chakraborty, and E. A. Hadly for extensive discussions and comments on the manuscript. V.V. Robin, V. Kolipakam, and D. Jathanna provided comments on the earlier versions of this manuscript. S. Koushika provided lab space and computing facility. S. Joseph provided technical assistance. We thank the editor Dmitri Petrov and two anonymous referees for their constructive comments and helpful suggestions, which greatly improved this manuscript.
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM UR. Performed the experiments: SM. Analyzed the data: SM UR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM UR. Wrote the paper: SM KUK UR. Provided laboratory facilities and funding: UR. Contributed samples: KUK.
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