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Acknowledgments.-I am most grateful to Professor J. R. Nursall for supervising and generously supporting this research. I also thank Professor G. E. Ball and Dr J. S. Nelson for their help. Professor C. C. Lindsey financed an early trip to the study area. Drs D. W. Hagen and J. D. McPhail and Mr T. E. Reimchen provided invaluable encouragement and practical assistance. Professor P. M. Sheppard kindly read the manuscript. To all these people I express my deep gratitude.
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Moodie, G. Predation, natural selection and adaptation in an unusual threespine stickleback. Heredity 28, 155–167 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1972.21
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