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Received 21 September 1999, accepted 5 October 2000.

SHERIE N. ZAHN AND STEPHEN I. ROTHSTEIN'

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

I E-mail: rothstei?lifesci.ucsb.edu