Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the financial support from the University of Saskatchewan through the Open Textbook Creation/Adaptation Fund, without which this textbook would not have been possible. We would also like to thank the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning (U of S), Heather Ross (Educational Developer, GMCTL, U of S), Kristine Dreaver-Charles (Instructional Designer, Distance Education Unit, U of S), and Jordan Epp (Instructional Designer, Distance Education Unit, U of S) for their enthusiastic support and help.

We’d also like to thank Dr. Cedric Gillott and Dr. Jack Gray, both at the University of Saskatchewan Department of Biology, for helpful comments on early drafts of this book.

Last but not least, we are also thankful for the feedback we received from undergraduate students at the U of S as they struggled through this work.