We also added to our list of probe sequences a further set of SNPs that were previously demonstrated to be polymorphic in animals from the study colony. These included 40 SNPs derived from RAD sequencing data that were validated using Sanger sequencing (Humble et al. 2018 (link)), 102 transcriptomic SNPs that were validated using Illumina’s GoldenGate assay (Hoffman et al. 2012 (link)) and 173 cross-amplified SNPs from the Illumina Canine HD BeadChip that were previously found to be polymorphic in 24 Antarctic fur seals (Hoffman et al. 2013a (link)). In addition to these, we included a further six SNPs that were recently discovered from the second exon of the Antarctic fur seal MHC class II DQB locus based on Illumina MiSeq data from 82 Antarctic fur seals (Ottensmann 2018 ).
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