This computer application was supported by NSF grants DEB-9521819 and DEB-9978106 to Daphne G. Fautin (in the program Partnerships to Enhance Expertise in Taxonomy), and OCE-0003970 to DGF and R. W. Buddemeier (in the National Ocean Partnership Program).

I am grateful to my advisor Daphne G. Fautin for the moral and sustained support in this project.

The following persons contributed with suggestions to the development of Syngraph:

Stephen D. Cairns - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Meg Daly - University of Kansas
Keith Hunsinger - University of Kansas
Tina N. Molodtsova - Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Science

This file was last updated on 16Jan2001