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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



We acknowledge the support of Monsanto Agricultural Products Company 

 and express appreciation to them for their corporate environmental ethic 

 as expressed throughout the mud turtle project and their encouragement of 

 an objective peer review of the research. 



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