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Crawford-Sidebotham, T. The role of slugs and snails in the maintenance of the cyanogenesis polymorphisms of Lotus corniculatus and Trifolium repens. Heredity 28, 405–411 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1972.52
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