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Edited by Fred W. Allendorf, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, and accepted by the Editorial Board November 11, 2011 (received for review July 14, 2011)
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- Published in issue January 3, 2012.
- Published first December 19, 2011.
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: christim{at}science.oregonstate.edu.
Author contributions: M.R.C. and M.S.B. designed research; M.R.C., M.L.M., and R.A.F. performed research; M.R.C. analyzed data; and M.R.C. and M.S.B. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. F.W.A. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1111073109/-/DCSupplemental.
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