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Pearson, A.M., Wood, R.J. Combining the meiotic drive gene D and the translocation T1 in the mosquito, Aedes Aegypti (L.). I. Sex-ratio distortion and fertility. Genetica 51, 203–210 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121612
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