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IN a recent report1 from this laboratory an apparent modification of food preference in Drosophila melanogaster was described, under the combined and opposing effects of natural and artificial selection. A deficiency in the design of that experiment was that the method used to measure food preference behaviour was confounded with a measure of the activity of flies. We have repeated this experiment with a new method of testing.
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ARNOLD, P., MORAY, N. Confirmation of Apparent Genetic Assimilation of Behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 204, 504 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204504a0
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