Dear all, here are some new publications of week 23 / 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. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA References Best, P.B. (2006): The presence of right whales in summer on the west coast of South Africa: the evidence from historical records. African Journal of Marine Science 28(1): 159-166. Bradford, A.L. et al. (2006): Survival estimates of western gray whales Eschrichtius robustus incorporating individual heterogeneity and temporary emigration. Marine Ecology Progress Series 315(): 293-307. Burton, R.F. (2006): A new look at the scaling of size in mammalian eyes. Journal of Zoology 269(2): 225-232. Canese, S. et al. (2006): The first identified winter feeding ground of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86(4): 903-907. Chen, D. et al. (2006): Reproductive seasonality and maturity of male Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis in captivity: A case study based on the hormone evidence. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 39(2): 163-173. Coughlan, J. et al. (2006): Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite loci for the short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and cross-amplification in other cetacean species. Molecular Ecology Notes 6(2): 490-492. Dawson, C.E. et al. (2006): Isolation of Brucella species from a bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). The Veterinary Record 158(24): 831-832. Mirimin, L. et al. (2006): Tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba Meyen, 1833). Molecular Ecology Notes 6(2): 493-495. Nikaido, M. et al. (2006): Erratum for Nikaido et al., Mol Biol Evol 23 (5) 866-873. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2006 23(7):1455; doi:10.1093/molbev/msk026. Published by Oxford University Press 2006. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(7): 1455. Porte, C. et al. (2006): Endocrine disruptors in marine organisms: Approaches and perspectives. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology 143(3): 303-315. Ringelstein, J. et al. (2006): Food and feeding ecology of the striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, in the oceanic waters of the north-east Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86(4): 909-918. Sáenz-Arroyo, A. et al. (2006): The value of evidence about past abundance: marine fauna of the Gulf of California through the eyes of 16th to 19th century travellers. Fish and Fisheries 7(2): 128-146. Skaug, H.J. (2006): Markov Modulated Poisson Processes for Clustered Line Transect Data. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 13(2): 199-211. Thewissen, J.G.M. et al. (2006): Developmental basis for hind-limb loss in dolphins and origin of the cetacean bodyplan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(22): 8414-8418. Weir, C.R. (2006): Sightings of beaked whales (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) including first confirmed Cuvier's beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris from Angola. African Journal of Marine Science 28(1): 173-175. Andersen, M. et al. (2006): Radiocaesium (137Cs) in marine mammals from Svalbard, the Barents Sea and the North Greenland Sea. Science of the Total Environment 363(1-3): 87-94. PINNIPEDIA Mecenerol, S. et al. (2006): Diet of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus at three mainland breeding colonies in Namibia. 1. Spatial variation. African Journal of Marine Science 28(1): 57-71. Mecenerol, S. et al. (2006): Diet of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus at three mainland breeding colonies in Namibia. 2. Temporal variation. African Journal of Marine Science 28(1): 73-88. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Cronin, M.A., S.C. Amstrup, and K.T. Scribner (2006): Microsatellite DNA and mitochondrial DNA variation in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, Alaska. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de