Dear all, here are some new publications of weeks 51+52 / 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, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Endo, A. and M. Yamao (2007): Policies governing the distribution of by-products from scientific and small-scale coastal whaling in Japan. Marine Policy 31(2): 169-181. McGuire, T.L. and E.R. Aliaga-Rossel (2007): Seasonality of Reproduction in Amazon River Dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) in Three Major River Basins of South America. Biotropica 39(1): 129-135. Melcher, J. et al. (2005): Tetra- and Tribromophenoxyanisoles in Marine Samples from Oceania. Environmental Science & Technology 39(20): 7784-7789. van Elk, C.E. et al. (2007): Escherichia coli Septicemia Associated with Lack of Maternally Acquired Immunity in a Bottlenose Dolphin Calf. Veterinary Pathology 44(1): 88-92. Varela, R.A. et al. (2006): Effects of duration of capture and sample handling on critical care blood analytes in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 229(12): 1955-1961. Deutch, B. et al. (2006): Dietary composition and contaminants in north Greenland, in the 1970s and 2004. Science of the Total Environment 370(2-3): 372-381. Deutch, B. et al. (2007): Contaminants, diet, plasma fatty acids and smoking in Greenland 1999-2005. Science of the Total Environment 372(2-3): 486-496. Levin, M., B. Morsey, and S. De Guise (2007): Modulation of the respiratory burst by organochlorine mixtures in marine mammals, humans, and mice. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A 70(1): 73-83. Marques, T.A. et al. (2006): The Use of Global Positioning Systems to Record Distances in a Helicopter Line-Transect Survey. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(3): 759-763. PINNIPEDIA Brookens, T.J., J.T. Harvey, and T.M. O'Hara (2007): Trace element concentrations in the Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii) in central and northern California. Science of the Total Environment 372(2-3): 676-692. Siebert, U. et al. (2007): Reversible reproductive control in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist. Theriogenology 67(3): 605-608. Tryland, M. et al. (2006): Serum chemistry for free-ranging ringed seals (Pusa hispida) in Svalbard. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 35(4): 405-412. Watson, R.R. et al. (2007): Volume density and distribution of mitochondria in harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) skeletal muscle. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 177(1): 89-98. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Ropstad, E. et al. (2006): Endocrine disruption induced by organochlorines (OCs): field studies and experimental models. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A 69(1-2): 53-76. Sonne, C. et al. (2007): Skull pathology in East Greenland and Svalbard polar bears (Ursus maritimus) during 1892 to 2002 in relation to organochlorine pollution. Science of the Total Environment 372(2-3): 554-561. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de