Dear all, here are some new publications of week 50 / 2006, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: http://www.mmbib.com/news.html Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards and a happy new year, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Guo, J. (2006): WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: River Dolphins Down for the Count, and Perhaps Out. Science 314(5807): 1860. McCormick, J.G. (2007): Behavioral Observations of Sleep and Anesthesia in the Dolphin: Implications for Bispectral Index Monitoring of Unihemispheric Effects in Dolphins. Anesthesia & Analgesia 104(1): 239-241. Noda, K. et al. (2006): Effect of bovine lactoferrin on the immune responses of captive bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) being transported over long distances. The Veterinary Record 159(26): 885-888. Du, B. and D. Wang (2006): C-values of Seven Marine Mammal Species Determined by Flow Cytometry. Zoological Science 23(11): 1017-1020. McDonald, W.L. et al. (2006): Characterization of a Brucella sp. Strain as a Marine-Mammal Type despite Isolation from a Patient with Spinal Osteomyelitis in New Zealand. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 44(12): 4363-4370. PINNIPEDIA Crawford, R.J.M. et al. (2007): Trends in numbers of Cape gannets (Morus capensis), 1956/1957-2005/2006, with a consideration of the influence of food and other factors. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64(1): 169-177. Hoffman, J.I., S. Steinfartz, and J.B.W. Wolf (2007): Ten novel dinucleotide microsatellite loci cloned from the Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus californianus wollebaeki) are polymorphic in other pinniped species. Molecular Ecology Notes 7(1): 103-105. Kowalewsky, S. et al. (2006): High olfactory sensitivity for dimethyl sulphide in harbour seals. Biology Letters 2(1): 106-109. Kretzmann, M. et al. (2006): Microsatellite Diversity and Fitness in Stranded Juvenile Harp Seals (Phoca groenlandica). Journal of Heredity 97(6): 555-560. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Turvey, S.T. and C.L. Risley (2006): Modelling the extinction of Steller's sea cow. Biology Letters 2(1): 94-97. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de