“…Firstly, all sampled individuals were genotyped using 22 of our newly developed putatively neutral microsatellite loci, namely, H5, H16, H22, H26, H31, H33, H37, H38, H43, H44, H47, H51, H54, H65, H70, H71, H75, H80, H82, H84, H106 and H111 [40]. Besides, we employed six more microsatellites identified from functional genes including hot shock protein 27 (HSP27), growth hormone (GH), CC chemokine (CCC), growth differentiation factor-8 (GDF8), cytochrome P450 (P450) and hepatocellular carcinoma-associated antigen 127 (HCA127), and the microsatellites were located in the 3’UTR or 5’UTR of these genes (Table S1).…”