Fig. 1

Map of white-tailed deer sampling units (gray) within the Ridge-and-Valley region of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia that were used to evaluate the described microsatellite panel. Sampling areas are numerically labeled in a north-to-south direction. The inset map shows the relative locations of the study area within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States of America. Figure generated with ArcMap 10.2 (www.esri.com) and RStudio (version 1.1.456; www.rstudio.com). County outlines were adapted from the USGS Small-scale Dataset – 2000 County Boundaries of the United States 200,506 Shapefile (Source: U.S. Geological Survey). State boundaries were adapted from the USA States (Generalized) layer available from Esri (Source: Esri, TomTom, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau)