With graduate training in protozoology and herpetology respectively, the unlikely team of Jeffries and Voris, audaciously began research on pedunculate barnacles of the genus Octolasmis in the mid-seventies. Our curiosity, interest, and enthusiasm were stimulated and sustained by opportunities to research the intra- and inter-phyletic symbioses, those intimate relationships between different species, which characterize the life cycles of all members of the genus Octolasmis. We wish to acknowledge the support and encouragement of John Costlow and Bill Newman, especially at the outset when we most needed assistance, and Ray Manning who always was a friendly, constant source of information and cogent counsel. We wish to thank our international colleagues, Mrs. C. M. Yang and her staff at the National University of Singapore, and Mr. Sombat Poovachiranon and all the support personnel at the Phuket Marine Biology Center, Phuket, Thailand, for sponsoring our research in their countries. In the U.S. we wish to thank the generation of Dickinson College students and volunteers at the Field Museum of Natural History who did so much to carry out the research effort.
Coauthors
William B. Jeffries
Laurie C. Heil, Dickinson. 1994
Marcus M. Key, Jr.
Sombat Poovachiranon
Jared W. Volpe, Dickinson. 1995
Harold K. Voris
Chang Man Yang
Supporting Institutions
We wish to express our sincere appreciation to the following institutions which, by generously contributing their resources in diverse and substantive ways, made these research efforts possible:
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Dauphin Island, Alabama
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina
Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
Florida Marine Research Institure, St. Petersburg, Florida
National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge
N.O.O.A., Pascagoula, Mississippi
Phuket Marine Biological Center, Phuket, Thailand
University of Alabama Scientific Collections, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Supporting Colleagues
We are grateful to the following individuals without whose combined efforts our contributions to the biology of the pedunculate genus Octolasmis would never have reached fruition:
Melinda C. Anderman, Dickinson. 1997
Sally Bartling, Dickinson. 1983
Udom Bhatia
David K. Camp
Saengdee Chailert
Alan Cheetham
Chua Song Cheng "Ah Bee"
Rodney Collier
Stefanie Comastro
John D. Costlow
James DeCamp, Dickinson. 1979 (M.S., Ph.D.)
Sandra L. Farrington
Ingrid Faucii
Marcia D. Feldman (Rost), Dickinson. 1984 (M.A.)
Mrs. Simon Greasi
Edward D. Grieff, Dickinson. 1988 (J.D.)
Melanie S. Hartman, Dickinson. 1995 (M.S.)
Kenneth L. Heck
Melissa H. Heller (Hoagland), Dickinson. 1979 (M.D.)
Amy B. Hewitt, Dickinson. 1995 (P.A.)
Tan Wee Hin Leah H. Hinkle, Dickinson. 1992 (M.D.)
Roy A. Hoagland, Dickinson. 1977 (J.D.)
Mark Hooper
Thomas S. Hopkins
Quee Hui
Arthur G. Humes
Dave Irwin
Lam Toong Jin
Tara Jones
Daryl Karns
Lua Hui Kheng
Bill Kirby-Smith
Boonchoy Kuoyratanakul
Mark Leiby
M. Loo
Yeo Keng Loo
Peter V. Lovell, Dickinson. 1996
Raymond B. Manning
Lee Wee Meng
Victor J. Navarro, Dickinson. 1984 (M.D.)
William A. Newman
Patrick J. Rowsey, Dickinson. 1990
Nathaniel Sanders, Jr.
Colleen E. Sculley, Dickinson. 1994
Carl L. Shuster
Abigail Smith W. Stephenson
Cheryl E. Stokes, Dickinson. 1979
Joe Sullivan Loral Teufel (Hoagland), Dickinson. 1976
Keow T. Thavaradhara (Essig), Dickinson. 1997 (M.S.)
Jessica Ustick
Mark S. Van Hoose
Helen H. Voris
Cheryl Walczac
Hilary A. Walmsley, Dickinson. 1983 (M.S., M.B.A.)
Brian C. Wilson, Dickinson. 1983
Russell Wilson
Credits
Harold Voris and William Jeffries provided the concepts and content. Sarah Drasner did the design and construction. Allyson Meyer oversaw the implementation.