RETRACTED: Characterization of the spotted seal Phoca largha transcriptome using Illumina paired-end sequencing and development of SSR markers

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Co-Editors-in-Chief and the Authors.The authors were made aware that their work contained information from a previously published paper without attribution (Hoffman, J.I. Mol. Ecol. Resour., 11 (2011) 703–710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.02999.x).The Co-Editors-in-Chief made the decision to retract the paper, with the agreement of the authors. The lack of citation of this previously published paper undermined the review process and the overlap was too substantial for a corrigendum. The authors apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused.