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Stabilised heterozygosis of supergenes mediating certain Y-linked colour patterns in populations of Lebistes Reticulatus
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Stabilised heterozygosis of supergenes mediating certain Y-linked colour patterns in populations of Lebistes Reticulatus

  • Caryl P Haskins1,
  • Patricia Young1,
  • Richard E Hewitt1 &
  • …
  • Edna F Haskins1 

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Haskins, C., Young, P., Hewitt, R. et al. Stabilised heterozygosis of supergenes mediating certain Y-linked colour patterns in populations of Lebistes Reticulatus. Heredity 25, 575–589 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1970.64

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