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The animal on the cover of Mastering Perl for
Bioinformatics is a North American bullfrog
(Rana catesbeiana). It is native to the central
and eastern United States, as well as southern portions of
Canada. However, this bullfrog has since been introduced as far away
from its native habitat as Asia, Europe, and Hawaii.
The North American bullfrog is the largest true frog in North
America and can weigh over a pound. It can grow up to eight inches in
length, although the norm is four to five inches. The gender of the
bullfrog is ascertained by comparing the size of the external ear (the
tympanum) relative to the size of the eye.
Bullfrogs are predators and also are cannibalistic. Their role
in the environment is to control the population of insect pests as
well as snakes and mice. In fact, the zeal of the North American
bullfrog threatens to drive other frog species to extinction.
The generic name (rana) comes from the
Latin for frog, while the species name
(catesbeiana) honors an English naturalist. In
the 18th century, Mark Catesby (1683-1749) produced the authoritative
and exhaustive record of the flora and fauna found in the New
World. Wealthy patrons in England eagerly received Catesby's regular
shipments of specimens, including plants, birds, reptiles, insects,
and frogs.
Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor and copyeditor,
and Marlowe Shaeffer was the proofreader, for Mastering
Perl for Bioinformatics. Jane Ellin and Colleen Gorman
provided quality control. Marlowe Shaeffer, Mary Agner, and James
Quill provided production assistance. John Bickelhaupt wrote the
index.
Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a
series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century
engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the
cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond
font.
David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was
converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format
conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and
Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is
Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the
code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations
that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn
Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and
warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was
written by Reg Aubry.
The online edition of this book was created by the Safari
production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell)
using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and
maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff
Liggett.
