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Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada through a research grant to LWA and a USRA to RS. Thanks
to Spencer Barrett for provided breeding information for several species, Dale
Kristensen and Richard Gold for assistance in the greenhouse, and Christopher
Eckert and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier version of the
text.
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