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The control of hydrogen cyanide formation in Lotus corniculatus and Trifolium repens suggested that the switch-mechanism in multiple polymorphism might usefully evolve into a super-gene. Some indication of that occurrence was obtained from those species in which various phases are apparently determined by a series of alleles (p. 120), while clear evidence for it can be derived from the examples to be discussed in this and the four succeeding chapters.
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Ford, E.B. (1977). Polymorphism and the Super-gene in Snails. In: Ecological Genetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5825-8_9
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