“…To estimate genetic diversity in this species, different markers have been tested, such as mitochondrial DNA [ 14 , 17 ], blood and tissue proteins [ 16 , 18 , 19 ], various genes (e.g., PRNP) [ 15 ], as well as di- and tri-nucleotide microsatellites [ 14 , 20 ]. Microsatellite marker-based developments have been predominantly carried out in other deer species to assess genetic diversity [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ], as the number of repeats in microsatellites tends to be highly variable within a population. Microsatellites or short tandem repeats (STRs) are polymorphic fragments of DNA containing a repeated sequence of generally 2–5 nucleotides.…”