Dear all, here are some new publications of week 04 / 2008, 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.php 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 Lester, B. (2008): Environment. Marine mammals still imperiled after sonar ruling. Science 319(5860): 147. Boisseau, O. et al. (2008): A visual and acoustic survey for harbour porpoises off North-West Africa: further evidence of a discrete population. African Journal of Marine Science 29(3): 403-410. De Stephanis, R. et al. (2008): Summer spatial distribution of cetaceans in the Strait of Gibraltar in relation to the oceanographic context. Marine Ecology Progress Series 353(): 275-288. Frantzis, A. and P. Alexiadou (2008): Male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) coda production and coda-type usage depend on the presence of conspecifics and the behavioural context. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(1): 62-75. Higdon, J.W. (2008): Second reply to the comment by Romero and Kannada on "Genetic analysis of 16th-century whale bones prompts a revision of the impact of Basque whaling on right and bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic". Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(1): 76-79. Meynier, L. et al. (2008): Intraspecific dietary variation in the short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis in the Bay of Biscay: importance of fat fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series 354(): 277-287. Romero, A. and S. Kannada (2008): Comment on the second reply by Higdon to the comment by Romero and Kannada on "Genetic analysis of 16th-century whale bones prompts a revision of the impact of Basque whaling on right and bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic". Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(1): 80-82. Sudo, R. et al. (2008): Sighting survey of cetaceans in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan. Fisheries Science 74(1): 211-213. PINNIPEDIA Ferreira, J.M. et al. (2008): Multiple origins of vagrant Subantarctic fur seals: a long journey to the Brazilian coast detected by molecular markers. Polar Biology 31(3): 303-308. Tucker, S., W.D. Bowen, and S.J. Iverson (2008): Convergence of diet estimates derived from fatty acids and stable isotopes within individual grey seals. Marine Ecology Progress Series 354(): 267-276. York, A.E. et al. (2008): Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values in teeth of Steller sea lions: age of weaning and the impact of the 1975-1976 regime shift in the North Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(1): 33-44. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Tringali, M.D. et al. (2008): Eighteen new polymorphic microsatellite markers for the endangered Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris. Molecular Ecology Notes 8(2): 328-331. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de