Hi, all! Here's the latest posting of new PDF's that are available. File sizes have been included. Abstracts also available on request. Please don't hit the reply button. Make all requests to: janiger@bcf.usc.edu Cheers! David Janiger - Curatorial Assistant (Mammals) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 763-3369 janiger@bcf.usc.edu djaniger@nhm.org AGUSTI, CELIA; FRANCISCO JAVIER AZNAR and JUAN ANTONIO RAGA. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 265(2):176-189. 2005. Microtriches of tetraphyllidean metacestodes from western Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). 0.949 MB ANDO, NORIKO; TAKEOMI ISONO and YASUNORI SAKURAI. ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 20(4):415-423. 2005. Trace elements in the teeth of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) from the North Pacific. 0.354 MB BARATA, TERESA and STEVE P. BROOKS. IMAGE ANALYSIS, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3540:429-438. 2005. Dolphins who's who: A statistical perspective. 0.275 MB BIGI, FABIANA; M. CARMEN GARCIA-PELAYO; JAVIER NUNEZ-GARCIA; ANDREA PERALTA; KARINA C. CAIMI; PAUL GOLBY; JASON HINDS; ANGEL CATALDI; STEPHEN V. GORDON and MARIA I. ROMANO. FEMS (FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES) MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS 248(2):147-152. 2005. Identification of genetic markers for Mycobacterium pinnipedii through genome analysis. 0.254 MB BIRKELAND, ANNETTE; KIT M. KOVACS; CHRISTIAN LYDERSEN and OTTO GRAHL-NIELSEN. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 298:287-294. 2005. Transfer of fatty acids from mothers to their calves during lactation in white whales Delphinapterus leucas. 0.086 MB BISCONTI, MICHELANGELO. PALAEONTOLOGY 48(4):793-816. 2005. Skull morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new diminutive balaenid from the Lower Pliocene of Belgium. 0.585 MB CARAVEO-PATINO, JAVIER and LUIS A. SOTO. HYDROBIOLOGIA 539:99-107. 2005. Stable carbon isotope ratios for the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in the breeding grounds of Baja California Sur, Mexico. 0.383 MB CLARKE, JANET T. and STEPHANIE A. NORMAN. JOURNAL OF CETACEAN RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT 7(1):43-50. 2005. Results and evaluation of US Navy shock trial environmental mitigation of marine mammals and sea turtles. 0.162 MB CRESPO, F. A. and L. L. DE CORE. MAMMALIA 69(2):233-238. 2005. Functional significance of bronchial sphincters in two southwestern Atlantic dolphins: Pontoporia blainvillei and Lagenorhynchus obscurus: A comparative approach. 1.367 MB DE LA CONCEPCION GARCIA-AGUILAR, MARIA and ENRIQUE MORALES-BOJORQUEZ. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 297:297-302. 2005. Estimating the haul-out population size of a colony of northern elephant seals Mirounga angustirostris in Mexico, based on mark-recapture data. 0.147 MB ENDO, TETSUYA; KOICHI HARAGUCHI; YOHEI HOTTA; YOHSUKE HISAMICHI; SHANE LAVERY; MEREL L. DALEBOUT and C. SCOTT BAKER. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 39(15):5703-5708. 2005. Total mercury, methyl mercury, and selenium levels in the red meat of small cetaceans sold for human consumption in Japan. 0.107 MB ERIKSEN, NINA; LEE A. MILLER; JAKOB TOUGAARD and DAVID A. HELWEG. BEHAVIOUR 142(3):305-328. 2005. Cultural change in the songs of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeanglide) from Tonga. 1.613 MB FERBER. DAN. SCIENCE (WASHINGTON D. C.) 309(5738):1166. 2005. Environmental science - Sperm whales bear testimony to worldwide pollution. 0.068 MB FRITZ, LOWELL W. and ERIC S. BROWN. FISHERY BULLETIN 103(3):501-515. 2005. Survey- and fishery-derived estimates of Pacific cod (Godus macrocephalus) biomass: Implications for strategies to reduce interactions between groundfish fisheries and Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). 0.648 MB GEISLER, JONATHAN H.; ALBERT E. SANDERS and ZHE-XI LUO. AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES 3480:1-65. 2005. A new protocetid whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the Late Middle Eocene of South Carolina. 1.954 MB GUINET, C.; N. SERVERA; T. DEVILLE and G. BEAUPLET. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 83(6):962-970. 2005. Changes in subantarctic fur seal pups' activity budget and diving behaviours throughout the rearing period. 0.100 MB HAMMOND, JOHN A.; AILSA J. HALL and ELISABETH A. DYRYNDA. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM) 74(2):126-138. 2005. Comparison of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) induced effects on innate immune functions in harbour and grey seals. 0.282 MB HATANAKA, HIROSHI. NATURE (LONDON) 436(7053):912. 2005. Answering the critics of Japanese whale research. 0.111 MB HOFMEYR, G. J. G.; B. A. KRAFFT; S. P. KIRKMAN; M. N. BESTER; C. LYDERSEN and K. M. KOVACS. POLAR BIOLOGY 28(9):725-731. 2005. Population changes of Antarctic fur seals at Nyroysa, Bouvetoya. 0.282 MB HOGARTH, WILLIAM. NATURE (LONDON) 436(7054):1088. 2005. Complex research on sea lions is worth the expense. 0.108 MB JOHNSON, PETER; ROBERT ELSNER and TANIA ZENTENO-SAVIN. FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 39(2):205-212. 2005. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 proteomics and diving adaptations in ringed seal. 0.526 MB KARUPPIAH, S.; A. SUBRAMANIAN and J. P. OBBARD. CHEMOSPHERE 60(7):891-897. 2005. Organochlorine residues in odontocete species from the southeast coast of India. 0.231 MB KASTELEIN, RONALD A.; MIRJAM JANSSEN; WILLEM C. VERBOOM and DICK DE HAAN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 118(2):1172-1179. 2005. Receiving beam patterns in the horizontal plane of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). 0.332 MB KEXIONG WANG; DING WANG; TOMONARI AKAMATSU; SONGHAI LI and JIANQIANG XIAO. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 118(2):1180-1185. 2005. A passive acoustic monitoring method applied to observation and group size estimation of finless porpoises. 0.105 MB LEHNERT, K.; J. A. RAGA and U. SIEBERT. DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS 64(3):265-269. 2005. Macroparasites in stranded and bycaught harbour porpoises from German and Norwegian waters. 0.312 MB MATSUOKA, KOJI; ROBERT L. PITMAN and FERNANDA F. C. MARQUEZ. JOURNAL OF CETACEAN RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT 7(1):71-73. 2005. A note on a pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) sighting in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. 0.125 MB MCMAHON, CLIVE; JOHN VAN DEN HOFF and HARRY BURTON. AMBIO 34(6):426-429. 2005. Handling intensity and the short- and long-term survival of elephant seals: Addressing and quantifying research effects on wild animals. 0.164 MB MILLER, NATALIE J.; ANTHONY D. POSTLE; SAMUEL SCHURCH; W. MICHAEL SCHOEL; CHRISTOPHER B. DANIELS and SANDRA ORGEIG. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 141(2):191-199. 2005. The development of the pulmonary surfactant system in California sea lions. 0.143 MB MILTON, SARAH. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 208(13):v-vi. 2005. News item Diving seals don't get the shivers. 0.338 MB MORIN, PHILLIP; AVIVA NESTLER; NADIA T. RUBIO-CISNEROS; KELLY M. ROBERTSON and SARAH L. MESNICK. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 14(10):3275-3286. 2005. Interfamilial characterization of a region of the ZFX and ZFY genes facilitates sex determination in cetaceans and other mammals. 1.022 MB NATOLI, ADA; ALEXEI BIRKUN; ALEX AGUILAR; ALFREDO LOPEZ and A. RUS HOELZEL. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 272(1569):1217-1226. 2005. Habitat structure and the dispersal of male and female bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 0.665 MB NISHIHARA, HIDENORI; YOKO SATTA; MASATO NIKAIDO; J. G. M. THEWISSEN; MICHAEL J. STANHOPE and NORIHIRO OKADA. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 22(9):1823-1833. 2005. A retroposon analysis of Afrotherian phylogeny. 0.329 MB OHISHI, KAZUE; KIYOTAKA TAKISHITA; MASARU KAWATO; RYOKO ZENITANI; TAKEHARU BANDO; YOSHIHIRO FUJISE; YOSHITAKA GOTO; SABURO YAMAMOTO and TADASHI MARUYAMA. MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 49(8):789-793. 2005. Chimeric structure of omp2 of Brucella from Pacific common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). 0.195 MB PADIAL, JOSE M. and CARLOS IBANEZ. MAMMALIA 69(2):239-243. 2005. New records and comments for the Mauritanian mammal fauna. 0.371 MB PRICE, SAMANTHA A.; OLAF R. P. BININDA-EMONDS and JOHN L. GITTLEMAN. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS 80(3):445-473. 2005. A complete phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals (Cetartiodactyla). 0.238 MB RICHARDSON, EVAN; IAN STIRLING and DAVID S. HIK. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 83(6):860-870. 2005. Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) maternity denning habitat in western Hudson Bay: A bottom-up approach to resource selection functions. 0.195 MB ROOTS, O.; V. ZITKO and A. ROOSE. CHEMOSPHERE 60(7):914-921. 2005. Persistent organic pollutant patterns in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). 0.367 MB ROSA, SABRINA; MICHEL C. MILINKOVITCH; KOEN VAN WAEREBEEK; JEHANNE BERCK; JORGE OPORTO; JOANNA ALFARO-SHIGUETO; MARIE-FRANCOISE F. VAN BRESSEM; NATALIE GOODALL and INSA CASSENS. CONSERVATION GENETICS 6(3):431-443. 2005. Population structure of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation among South American Burmeister's porpoises (Phocoena spinipinnis). 0.377 MB SACCO, JAMES C. and MARGARET O. JAMES. DRUG METABOLISM AND DISPOSITION 33(9):1341-1348. 2005. Sulfonation of environmental chemicals and their metabolites in the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). 0.278 MB SEPULVEDA, MARITZA and DORIS OLIVA. AQUACULTURE RESEARCH 36(11):1062-1068. 2005. Interactions between South American sea lions Otaria flavescens (Shaw) and salmon farms in southern Chile. 0.212 MB SMITHWICK, MARLA; SCOTT A. MABURY; KEITH R. SOLOMON; CHRISTIAN SONNE; JONATHAN W. MARTIN; ERIK W. BORN; RUNE DIETZ; ANDREW E. DEROCHER; ROBERT J. LETCHER; THOMAS J. EVANS; GEIR W. GABRIELSEN; JOHN NAGY; IAN STIRLING; M. K. TAYLOR and D. C. G. MUIR. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 39(15):5517-5523. 2005. Circumpolar study of perfluoroalkyl contaminants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus). 0.402 MB SOUTHALL, BRANDON L.; RONALD J. SCHUSTERMAN; DAVID KASTAK and COLLEEN REICHMUTH KASTAK. ACOUSTICS RESEARCH LETTERS ONLINE-ARLO 6(4):243-249. 2005. Reliability of underwater hearing thresholds in pinnipeds. 0.063 MB SOUTHWELL, C. J.; K. R. KERRY and P. H. ENSOR. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 299:297-309. 2005. Predicting the distribution of crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophaga off east Antarctica during the breeding season. 0.624 MB THOMPSON, DAVID; MIKE LONERGAN and CALLAN DUCK. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 42(4):638-648. 2005. Population dynamics of harbour seals Phoca vitulina in England: Monitoring growth and catastrophic declines. 0.292 MB TRITES, ANDREW W. and RUTH JOY. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 86(4):704-712. 2005. Dietary analysis from fecal samples: How many scats are enough? 0.319 MB TRUMBLE, STEPHEN J. and MICHAEL A. CASTELLINI. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 83(6):851-859. 2005. Diet mixing in an aquatic carnivore, the harbour seal. 0.112 MB VERFUß, URSULA K.; LEE A. MILLER and HANS-ULRICH SCHNITZLER. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 208(17):3385-3394. 2005. Spatial orientation in echolocating harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). 0.487 MB VERREAULTT, JONATHAN; GEIR V. GABRIELSEN; SHAOGANG CHU; DEREK C. G. MUIR; MAGNUS ANDERSEN; AHMAD HAMAED and ROBERT J. LETCHER. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 39(16):6021-6028. 2005. Flame retardants and methoxylated and hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers in two Norwegian Arctic top predators: Glaucous gulls and polar bears. 0.244 MB YANG, G.; J. YAN; K. ZHOU and F. WEI. JOURNAL OF HEREDITY 96(4):310-317. 2005. Sequence variation and gene duplication at MHC DQB loci of baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), a Chinese river dolphin. 0.535 MB