Acknowledgments
Many colleagues, students, friends, and members of our families have contributed to the production of this book, from carrying out simple tasks to proofreading to providing emotional encouragement and support.
We are grateful to them all, although we can directly acknowledge only a few of them here: Thomas Carr (Carthage College) for preparing selected dissections and providing valuable input on text and illustrations; Hans-Dieter Sues (Smithsonian Institution), Jeff Thomason (University of Guelph), and Sergio F. Vizcaino (Museo de La Plata) for providing particularly comprehensive reviews of earlier versions of the manuscript that greatly im-proved the final product; Rob Baker and Jim Thomson (University of Toronto) and Rivie Seaberg (George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology) for academic and institutional support; Stephen Mader (Artery Studios Inc.) for his encouragement and support; Peter von Bitter, Kathy David, Brian Iwama, and Peter Reali for help with photography; Celestino De Iuliis for reading earlier drafts of the manuscript; Marco Zimmer- De Iuliis for expert preparation of specimens; Sandra Reali for logistic support; Kevin Seymour for access to the skeletal collections of the Royal Ontario Museum; Skulls Unlimited (www.skullsunlimited.com) for providing skeletons for study and photography; Barry Bruce (CSIRO Division of Marine Research, Tasmania), Mark McGrouther and Elizabeth Cameron (Australian Museum) and Andrew and Silvy Fox (Rodney Fox Shark Museum, Australia) for providing shark dissection photos; a special thank you to Steven E. Campana (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada; www. marinebiodiversity.ca/shark/english/index.htm) for also providing digital and labeled shark dissection photos, and very kindly allowing us to reprint the SEM photo of the spiny dogfish skin (Figure 3.12(g)). We thank several anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments, suggestions, and corrections. The efforts of Timothy Rowe (The University of Texas at Austin) on the Digital Morphology web site (www.Digimorph.org) are greatly appreciated. Although we did not make direct use of Digimorph images, several of them were extremely useful in the interpretation of anatomical features. We thank our editors Tamsin Kent, Nancy Maragioglio, and Kelly Sonnack and Jeff Freeland of Elsevier for their patience, guidance, and keeping us on target. We are also indebted to David Cella (formerly of Elsevier) for initial consideration of our proposal and recognizing the potential for this book and to Stephen G. Gilbert for showing us how to get started on creating our own book, and for his encouragement, support, advice, and continued inspiration. Lastly, we thank Virginia and Cinzia for being there beside us every step of the way in seeing this book through to the end—it has been a long and challenging journey.
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