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Acknowledgment.-We wish to thank Miss Rosemary Carpenter for excellent assistance throughout the work and Mr Peter Slarke for assistance with the chromatographic analysis of pigments. Mr L. S. Clarke was responsible for the photograph. We are also grateful to Dr. J. B. Harborne for valuable advice on identification of pigments.
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Fincham, J., Harrison, B. Instability at the pal locus in Antirrhinum majus II. Multiple alleles produced by mutation of one original unstable allele. Heredity 22, 211–224 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1967.27
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