Dear all, here are some new publications of week 43 / 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 Burton, R. (2006): CAPTAIN JAMES FAIRWEATHER: WHALER AND SHIPMASTER: HIS LIFE AND CAREER 1853-1933. Nancy Rycroft. 2005. Ripponden, West Yorkshire: Fairweather Books. 202 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-9551739-0-6. £13.95. Polar Record 42(4): 380. Das, K. et al. (2006): Interfollicular Fibrosis in the Thyroid of the Harbour Porpoise: An Endocrine Disruption? Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 51(4): 720-729. Fossi, M.C. et al. (2006): Development of new-tools to investigate toxicological hazard due to endocrine disruptor organochlorines and emerging contaminants in Mediterranean cetaceans. Marine Environmental Research 62(1): S200-S204. Fritz, M. (2006): Whales & Dolphins of the World. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118(1): 122-123. Johnson, J.I. et al. (2006): Sensory cerebral cortex in cetartiodactyls compared with that in primates and carnivores. The FASEB Journal 20(5): A880-b. Reidenberg, J.S. (2006): Motor Mouth Moby: is the hyoid a locomotor bone in whales, dolphins, and porpoises? The FASEB Journal 20(5): A845-d. Remage-Healey, L., D.P. Nowacek, and A.H. Bass (2006): Dolphin foraging sounds suppress calling and elevate stress hormone levels in a prey species, the Gulf toadfish. Journal of Experimental Biology 209(22): 4444-4451. PINNIPEDIA Arnason, U. et al. (2006): Pinniped phylogeny and a new hypothesis for their origin and dispersal. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41(2): 345-354. Fulton, T.L. and C. Strobeck (2006): Molecular phylogeny of the Arctoidea (Carnivora): Effect of missing data on supertree and supermatrix analyses of multiple gene data sets. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41(1): 165-181. Kuhn, C.E. and D.P. Costa (2006): Identifying and quantifying prey consumption using stomach temperature change in pinnipeds. Journal of Experimental Biology 209(): 4524-4532. Pearson, M. and R. Stehberg (2006): Nineteenth century sealing sites on Rugged Island, South Shetland Islands. Polar Record 42(4): 335-347. Riemer, S.D. and R. Mikus (2006): Aging fish otoliths recovered from Pacific Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) fecal samples. Fishery bulletin 104(4): 626-630. Sakai, H. et al. (2006): Constitutive Androstane Receptor (CAR) as a Potential Sensing Biomarker of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Aquatic Mammal: Molecular Characterization, Expression Level, and Ligand Profiling in Baikal Seal (Pusa sibirica). Toxicological Sciences 94(1): 57-70. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Aragones, L.V. et al. (2006): Dugong grazing and turtle cropping: grazing optimization in tropical seagrass systems? Oecologia 149(4): 635-647. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de