5.8 Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge support by grants from NSF (MCB 02-12099, IBN
03-36738, and DBI 03-01460) and NASA (NAG2-1594). We also thank Greg Richter for
critical reading of the manuscript.
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