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An Introduction to Parasitic Wasps of Drosophila and the Antiparasite Immune Response
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GEOGRAPHY OF THE SIBLING SPECIES RELATED TO DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI, AND OF THE SEMISPECIES OF THE DROSOPHILA
B Spassky1, R C Richmond1, S Perez-Salas1
1The Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
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