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Laboratory crosses confirm the inheritance of allozymes at six loci in Cepaea nemoralis. There is considerable geographic variation within Britain for these allozymes, with each locus having high frequencies of alternative alleles in some populations. The average population has only 45 per cent of the total genic variation in the British populations examined.
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Johnson, M. Inheritance and geographic variation of allozymes in Cepaea nemoralis. Heredity 43, 137–141 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1979.67
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