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The general importance of disruptive selection (A comment on Waddington and Robertson's recent paper)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

J. M. Thoday
J. M. Thoday
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Department of Genetics, Cambridge University, England
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In their recent paper, Waddington & Robertson (1966) discuss the general importance of disruptive selection and make various points that call for comment.

First, their statement that ‘It is most desirable that Thoday's results … should be repeated, with special attention to the strict virginity of the flies used, …’ appears to some readers as a scarcely veiled imputation that my experiments, especially that of Thoday & Gibson (1962), were executed without technical competence, though Waddington has informed me such imputation was not intended.

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Short Papers
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Genetics Research , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1967 , pp. 119 - 120
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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