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On a forested mountain slope in the Swiss Alps gene arrangements of D. subobscura were sampled from altitudes between 600 and 1 900 m above sea level during the years 1977 and 1979. In both years the standard arrangement of chromosome I increased in frequency with altitude. Judging from the pattern of gene arrangement frequencies the population was spatially structured on a fine scale within altitude and on a coarser scale between altitudes. There were temporal changes between years. In spite of the fact that D. subobscura is at its ecological margin at the timberline no evidence of reduced variability was found there.
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Burla, H., Jungen, H. & Bächli, G. Population structure of Drosophila subobscura: Non-random microdispersion of inversion polymorphism on a mountain slope. Genetica 70, 9–15 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00123209
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