Table 1.

Parameters of genetic information content of 12 microsatellite loci estimated from ex situ population of African penguin. k = number of alleles; N = number of samples; H _obs = observed heterozygosity; H _exp = expected heterozygosity; PIC = polymorphic information content; NE‐1P = average nonexclusion probability for one candidate parent; and NE‐2P = average nonexclusion probability for one candidate parent given the genotype of a known parent of the opposite sex

Locus	k	N	H obs	H exp	PIC	NE‐1P	NE‐2P
G2‐2	5	33	0.697	0.695	0.627	0.740	0.577
SH1CA9	10	33	0.788	0.779	0.746	0.593	0.409
SH2CA21	7	33	0.667	0.740	0.688	0.672	0.495
B3‐2	3	33	0.152	0.172	0.161	0.986	0.915
G3‐6	7	33	0.636	0.730	0.669	0.697	0.526
PNN01	4	33	0.727	0.675	0.595	0.773	0.621
PNN03	5	33	0.394	0.424	0.383	0.909	0.773
PNN06	4	33	0.636	0.656	0.578	0.786	0.634
PNN08	4	33	0.697	0.656	0.584	0.781	0.624
PNN09	6	33	0.758	0.769	0.717	0.645	0.468
PNN12	5	32	0.875	0.730	0.671	0.695	0.523
PNN05	2	33	0.121	0.116	0.107	0.994	0.946
Mean	5.17			0.5952	0.5439	0.0389	0.0024