7. Acknowledgements

This software greatly benefited from funding provided to Jamie Oaks from the National Science Foundation (DEB 1011423 and DBI 1308885), University of Kansas (KU) Office of Graduate Studies, Society of Systematic Biologists, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, KU Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, and the KU Biodiversity Institute.

Some of the functions for calculating properties of Dirichlet processes were adapted from functions within util.h from the software package DPPDiv version 1.0b (Copyright Tracy Heath, Mark Holder, and John Huelsenback; licensed under GPL v3; http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/content/tracy-heath-dppdiv).