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Studies in quantitative inheritance VI. Sternite chaeta number in Drosophila: A metameric quantitative character

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    E. C. R. Reeve & Forbes W. Robertson

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Reeve, E.C.R., Robertson, F.W. Studies in quantitative inheritance VI. Sternite chaeta number in Drosophila: A metameric quantitative character. Z.Ver-erbungslehre 86, 269–288 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312225

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