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Studies in quantitative inheritance

I. The effects of selection of wing and thorax length inDrosophila melanogaster

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Robertson, F.W., Reeve, E. Studies in quantitative inheritance. Journ. of Genetics 50, 414–448 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986839

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