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* remove support for reading excel spreadsheets (GH-71)
* requirements.txt identifies all direct dependencies
* add ``taxit merge_taxtables``
* New ``taxit new_database --taxdump`` and ``taxit new_database--taxdump-url`` arguments
for flexibility on taxdump.zip location(s)
* New function taxtable.remove_subtree() (GH-80)