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Nicolas Blavet1*, Delphine Charif2, Christine Oger-Desfeux3,
Gabriel AB Marais2 and Alex Widmer1  Author affiliations  1
Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zurich,
Universitaetstrasse 16, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland  2 Laboratoire
de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5558, Université
Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, F-69622 cedex, France  3 DTAMB/PRABI,
IFR41, Université Lyon 1, Bâtiment Gregor Mendel, Villeurbanne,
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Citation and License  BMC Genomics 2011, 12:376 
doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-376   Received:21 January 2011
Accepted:26 July 2011 Published:26 July 2011  © 2011 Blavet et
al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.          cDNA library;
database; EST; SNP; Silene   The genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae)
consists of several hundred species with a mainly holarctic
distribution. Because species vary widely in their breeding
system, sex determination and ecology, the genus has
historically p