Perpetuation of the hereditary sigma vir
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A. Fleuriet
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Article
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1986
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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In natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster, about 10070 of the individuals are infected by a virus, sigma, which is not contagious but is transmitted through gametes. These populations are also regularly polymorphic for two alleles, O and P, of a locus ref(2)P; the P allele interferes with th