“…These are regions of the genome that are made up of short repeat sequences, consisting of one to six nucleotides (Hancock, 1999;Sawaya et al, 2013), and they are widely used in studies of various organisms because of their high degree of polymorphism and their co-dominant inheritance. One of the limiting factors in the use of these markers is the development of speciesspecific primers (Lopes et al, 2010) to resolve genetic relationships at all levels of the population structure (Jarne and Lagoda, 1996;Hille et al, 2002). Nevertheless, attempts have been made to use these methods for the domestic cat (Felis catus) (Menotti-Raymond et al, 1999), Sumatran tiger (P. t. sumatrae) (Williamson et al, 2002), Asiatic lion (P. leo persica) (Singh et al, 2002), South China tiger (P. t. amoyensis) (Zhang et al, 2006), puma (Puma concolor) (Kurushima et al, 2006) and Bengal tiger (Bhagvatula and Singh, 2006;Sharma et al, 2008) among the Felidae.…”