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Decline of melanic moths

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  1. Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 23187, USA

    Bruce Grant

  2. School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 0X3 OBP, UK

    Denis F. Owen

  3. Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    Cyril A Clarke

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Grant, B., Owen, D. & Clarke, C. Decline of melanic moths. Nature 373, 565 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373565a0

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