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Flatfishes and the inheritance of asymmetries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

David Policansky
David Policansky
Affiliation:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138; and The New England Aquarium, Boston, Mass. 02116
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 2: Special Symposium Issue , June 1982 , pp. 262 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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