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Many species of Drosophila are polymorphic for variants of the gene arrangement in their chromosomes. Typically, the inversion polymorphism is abundant in the centers of the distribution of the species and decreases towards the margins of the area occupied by the species. Examples of such species are D. willistoni, D. robusta and D. subobscura (Carson, 1959; Dobzhansky, 1962). Carson (1959) presented a quite plausible hypothesis to account for this phenomenon.
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Muona, O., Saura, A., Lokki, J. (1982). Gametic Equilibrium in Central and Marginal Populations of Drosophila Subobscura. In: Lakovaara, S. (eds) Advances in Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Drosophila. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8321-9_29
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