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From the Genetics Laboratory of the New York Aquarium at the American Museum of Natural History, New York 24, New York. This work was done with the support of a grant from the American Philosophical Society. The authors wish to express their thanks to the Departments of Birds and of Animal Behaviour for the generous use of their facilities at the American Museum of Natural History, and to Dr Sewall Wright, Dr Th. Dobzhansky, Dr Ernst Mayr and Mr James W. Atz for reading and criticising the manuscript.
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Gordon, H., Gordon, M. Colour patterns and gene frequencies in natural populations of a platyfish. Heredity 4, 61–73 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1950.4
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