Dear all, here are some new publications of week 44 / 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 Buck, J.D. et al. (2006): Aerobic microorganisms associated with free-ranging bottlenose dolphins in coastal Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic ocean waters. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42(3): 536-544. Evans, J.J. et al. (2006): First report of Streptococcus agalactiae and Lactococcus garvieae from a wild bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42(3): 561-569. Harlin-Cognato, A.D. and R.L. Honeycutt (2006): Multi-locus phylogeny of dolphins in the subfamily Lissodelphininae: Character synergy improves phylogenetic resolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6(1): 87. Kazár, E. (2006): Sophianaecetus, a replacement name for Mediocris (Cetacea: Delphinoidea: Kentriodontidae). Fossil Record - Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 9(2): 260. Seol, B. et al. (2006): Isolation of Clostridium tertium from a Striped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the Adriatic Sea. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42(3): 709-711. Uhen, M.D. (2006): Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. Second Edition. By Annalisa Berta, James L Sumich, and Kit M Kovacs ; illustrated by Pieter Arend Folkens and Peter J Adam. Academic Press. Burlington (Massachusetts): Elsevier. $69.95. x + 547 p + 16 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 0-12-088552-2. 2006. The Quarterly Review of Biology 81(3): 297. Uhen, M.D. (2006): The generic name Mediocris (Cetacea: Delphinoidea: Kentriodontidae), belongs to a foraminiferan. Fossil Record - Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 9(2): 259. Umehara, A. et al. (2006): Molecular identification of Anisakis simplex sensu stricto and Anisakis pegreffii (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from fish and cetacean in Japanese waters. Parasitology International 55(4): 267-271. PINNIPEDIA Foot, N.J., S. Orgeig, and C.B. Daniels (2006): The evolution of a physiological system: The pulmonary surfactant system in diving mammals. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 154(1-2): 118-138. Gwynn, J.P. et al. (2006): The derivation of radionuclide transfer parameters for and dose-rates to an adult ringed seal (Phoca hispida) in an Arctic environment. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 90(3): 197-209. Solomon, J.H. and M.J. Hartmann (2006): Biomechanics: robotic whiskers used to sense features. Nature 443(7111): 525. Yin, X. et al. (2006): A 1500-year record of lead, copper, arsenic, cadmium, zinc level in Antarctic seal hairs and sediments. Science of the Total Environment 371(1-3): 252-257. Zabka, T.S. et al. (2006): Acute Lead Toxicosis in a Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) Consequent to Ingestion of a Lead Fishing Sinker. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42(3): 651-657. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de