Fig. 1
Pedigree of panda #308 with the largest genetic contribution (7.1 % of the gene pool and 125 descendants) to the captive panda population among all wild founders as of October 2014. This pedigree is an example showing the complexity of the pedigree structure of the captive panda population. The full pedigree of the captive panda population is provided as Additional file 1. Square: male. Circle: female. Diamond: sex unknown. Pink filled color: in the current population. White filled color: not in the current population. (Pedigree drawings of this figure and Additional file 1 were produced by the Pedigraph program [16])