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First Appearance of Red-eye in the wild Gammarus chevreuxi, Sexton

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IN a letter to NATURE1, we were able to show that heterozygosity existed in the wild stock of this species —eggs from an outside mating, hatched some days later in the laboratory, gave 2 red-eyed recessives in a brood of 11 young.

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  1. Sexton and Clark, ” New Developments in Gammarus chevreuxi, Sexton”. NATURE, 133, 27 ; 1934.

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SEXTON, E., CLARK, A. & SPOONER, G. First Appearance of Red-eye in the wild Gammarus chevreuxi, Sexton. Nature 136, 836 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136836a0

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