noninvasive genotyping and mendelian analysis of microsatellites in african savannah elephants. | we obtained fresh dung samples from 202 (133 mother-offspring pairs) savannah elephants (loxodonta africana) in samburu, kenya, and genotyped them at 20 microsatellite loci to assess genotyping success and errors. a total of 98.6% consensus genotypes was successfully obtained, with allelic dropout and false allele rates at 1.6% (n = 46) and 0.9% (n = 37) of heterozygous and total consensus genotypes, respectively, and an overall genotyping error rate of 2.5% based on repeat typing. mendelian ana ... | 2005 | 16251516 |