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1Department of Biology, Queens College, Flushing, New York
2Department of Zoology, University of Missouri
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This work was supported by grants received by one of the authors (B. C.) from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society (grant no. 500) and from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.