MARMAMers: HOT OFF THE PRESS! I'd like to call your attention to the Special Issue of The Anatomical Record devoted to Anatomical Adaptations of Aquatic Mammals, Volume 290, Issue 6 (June 2007), Guest Edited by Joy S. Reidenberg. "The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology" (make sure you look for this specific journal title only, and not other older versions of Anatomical Record) can be accessed through the following link for PDF downloads: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/113463905 or http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/113463905? CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Articles in the Current Issue: Editorials The anatomical record under the sea: A history of reporting findings on the biology, adaptations, and evolution of mammals that inhabit a watery world (p 501-503) Jeffrey T. Laitman, Kurt H. Albertine Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20543 Introductions Thar she blows and dives, and feeds, and talks, and hears, and thinks: The anatomical adaptations of aquatic mammals (p 504-506) Jeffrey T. Laitman Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20542 Anatomical adaptations of aquatic mammals (p 507-513) Joy S. Reidenberg Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20541 Research Articles Evolution of marine mammals: Back to the sea after 300 million years (p 514-522) Mark D. Uhen Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20545 Use of tusks in feeding by dugongid sirenians: Observations and tests of hypotheses (p 523-538) Daryl P. Domning, Brian L. Beatty Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20540 Breaking symmetry: The marine environment, prey size, and the evolution of asymmetry in cetacean skulls (p 539-545) C.D. Macleod, J.S. Reidenberg, M. Weller, M.B. Santos, J. Herman, J. Goold, G.J. Pierce Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20539 Adaptations of the cetacean hyolingual apparatus for aquatic feeding and thermoregulation (p 546-568) Alexander J. Werth Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20538 Blowing bubbles: An aquatic adaptation that risks protection of the respiratory tract in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) (p 569-580) Joy S. Reidenberg, Jeffrey T. Laitman Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20537 Stomach anatomy and use in defining systemic relationships of the cetacean family ziphiidae (beaked whales) (p 581-595) James G. Mead Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20536 Structure of the integument of southern right whales, Eubalaena australis (p 596-613) Desray Reeb, Peter Barrington Best, Susan Hillary Kidson Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20535 Examination of the three-dimensional geometry of cetacean flukes using computed tomography scans: Hydrodynamic implications (p 614-623) Frank E. Fish, John T. Beneski, Darlene R. Ketten Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20546 Vertebral anatomy in the Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris: A developmental and evolutionary analysis (p 624-637) Emily A. Buchholtz, Amy C. Booth, Katherine E. Webbink Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20534 Sink or swim? Bone density as a mechanism for buoyancy control in early cetaceans (p 638-653) Noel-Marie Gray, Kimberly Kainec, Sandra Madar, Lucas Tomko, Scott Wolfe Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20533 Evolution of hyperphalangy and digit reduction in the cetacean manus (p 654-672) Lisa Noelle Cooper, Annalisa Berta, Susan D. Dawson, Joy S. Reidenberg Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20532 Forelimb myology of the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) (p 673-693) Rebecca E. Fisher, Kathleen M. Scott, Virginia L. Naples Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20531 Cetacean brains: How aquatic are they? (p 694-700) Lori Marino Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20530 Adaptive features of aquatic mammals' eye (p 701-715) Alla M. Mass, Alexander YA. Supin Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20529 Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: Anatomical adaptations for underwater hearing (p 716-733) Sirpa Nummela, J.G.M. Thewissen, Sunil Bajpai, Taseer Hussain, Kishor Kumar Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20528 Anatomical predictions of hearing in the North Atlantic right whale (p 734-744) Susan E. Parks, Darlene R. Ketten, Jennifer T. O'Malley, Julie Arruda Published Online: 21 May 2007 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20527 Discovery of a low frequency sound source in Mysticeti (baleen whales): Anatomical establishment of a vocal fold homolog (p 745-759) Joy S. Reidenberg, Jeffrey T. 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