Patent ID: 7083925

Claim:
A method of determining parentage of a North American bison or domestic cattle offspring comprising: i) determining the alleles present in the offspring for selected microsatellite loci; ii) determining the alleles present in sampled potential parents of the offspring for the same selected microsatellite loci; iii) determining the likelihood that any potential parent is the actual parent of the offspring based upon the presence or absence of an allele for each of the selected loci in the offspring that is present in the potential parent; wherein the selected loci comprise BM1225, BM1706, BM17132, BM1905, BM2113, BM4440, BM720, BMS1862, BMS410, BMS510, BMS527, RM372, BMS1172, BMS2639, BM3628 and BMS2325.