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This study was made possible by a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation, Division of Natural Sciences, during the years 1947–1950.
Formerly, Lecturer in Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, American University of Beirut.
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Pipkin, S.B. Seasonal fluctuations in Drosophila populations at different altitudes in the Lebanon Mountains. Z.Ver-erbungslehre 84, 270–305 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309472
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