Dear all, here are some new publications of week 24 / 2007, 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 Brown, J.C. and P.J.O. Miller (2007): Automatic classification of killer whale vocalizations using dynamic time warping. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 1201-1207. Finneran, J.J., H.R. London, and D.S. Houser (2007): Modulation rate transfer functions in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) with normal hearing and high-frequency hearing loss. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 193(8): 835-843. Finneran, J.J. et al. (2007): Assessing temporary threshold shift in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) using multiple simultaneous auditory evoked potentials. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 1249-1264. Kastelein, R.A., D. de Haan, and W.C. Verboom (2007): The influence of signal parameters on the sound source localization ability of a harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 1238-1248. Li, S. et al. (2007): The ontogeny of echolocation in a Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 715-718. Möller, L.M. et al. (2007): Habitat type promotes rapid and extremely localised genetic differentiation in dolphins. Marine and Freshwater Research 58(7): 640-648. Neuenhagen, C., M.G. Hartmann, and H. Greven (2007): Histology and morphometrics of testes of the white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) in bycatch samples from the northeastern Atlantic. Mammalian Biology: Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 72(5): 283-298. Sirovic, A., J.A. Hildebrand, and S.M. Wiggins (2007): Blue and fin whale call source levels and propagation range in the Southern Ocean. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 1208-1215. Thode, A.M. et al. (2007): Observations of potential acoustic cues that attract sperm whales to longline fishing in the Gulf of Alaska. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 1265-1277. Thomsen, F. et al. (2007): The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the central German Bight: phenology, abundance and distribution in 2002-2004. Helgoland. Mar. Res., DOI: 10.1007/s10152-007-0075-6, online first Urazghildiiev, I.R. and C.W. Clark (2007): Acoustic detection of North Atlantic right whale contact calls using spectrogram-based statistics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122(2): 769-776. PINNIPEDIA Burns, J.M. et al. (2007): Size and distribution of oxygen stores in harp and hooded seals from birth to maturity. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 177(6): 687-700. Castinel, A. et al. (2007): Neonatal mortality in New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) at Sandy Bay, Enderby Island, Auckland Islands from 1998 to 2005. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(3): 461-474. de Bruyn, P.J.N. et al. (2007): Leucistic Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at Marion Island. Polar Biology 30(10): 1355-1358. Hernandez, J. et al. (2007): Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella. Polar Biology 30(10): 1227-1229. Hoff, J., H. Burton, and B. Raymond (2007): The population trend of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina L.) at Macquarie Island (1952?2004). Polar Biology 30(10): 1275-1283. Marquez, M.E.I. et al. (2007): Shifts in specific serum protein concentrations: apolipoprotein-B and albumin in the southern elephant seal during the breeding and molting periods in Antarctica. Polar Biology 30(10): 1253-1263. Moles, A. and R.A. Heintz (2007): Parasites of forage fishes in the vicinity of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) habitat in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(3): 366-375. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Nicholson, T.E. et al. (2007): Effects of rearing methods on survival of released free-ranging juvenile southern sea otters. Biological Conservation 138(3-4): 313-320. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de