C. KongritC. SiripunkawW. Y. BrockelmanV. AkkarapatumwongT. F. WrightL. S. EggertMahidol UniversityThe Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development, Mahidol UniversityUniversity of Missouri-ColumbiaNew Mexico State University Las Cruces2018-07-122018-07-122008-01-01Molecular Ecology Resources. Vol.8, No.1 (2008), 175-177147182861755098X2-s2.0-36849055074https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/18782The endangered Asian elephant is found today primarily in protected areas. We characterized 18 dinucleotide microsatellite loci in this species. Allelic diversity ranged from three to eight per locus, and observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.200 to 0.842 in a wild population. All loci were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, but linkage disequilibrium was detected between two loci in the wild, but not in the zoo elephants. These loci will be useful for the population-level studies of this species. © 2007 The Authors.Mahidol UniversityAgricultural and Biological SciencesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyArticleSCOPUS10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01916.x