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1. D. A. Hickey
   Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, L2S 3Al, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

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1. Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University Cambridge, 02138, Mass., USA
   D. A. Hickey

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This work was supported by the NIH grant, GM-21179 to R.C. Lewontin.

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Hickey, D.A. The geographical pattern of an enzyme polymorphism in D. melanogaster.Genetica 51, 1–4 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00139491

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• Received: 10 January 1979
• Accepted: 30 May 1979
• Issue date: November 1979
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00139491

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