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Dobzhansky, T., Pavlovsky, O. A further study of fitness of chromosomally polymorphic and monomorphic populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Heredity 16, 169–179 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1961.19
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