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Experimentally Created Incipient Species of Drosophila

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By means of selection in many generations, ethological (sexual) isolation has been built between strains of Drosophila which were formerly not reproductively isolated.

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    THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY & OLGA PAVLOVSKY

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DOBZHANSKY, T., PAVLOVSKY, O. Experimentally Created Incipient Species of Drosophila. Nature 230, 289–292 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230289a0

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