Dear all, here are some new publications of weeks 04 and 05 / 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 Fontaine, M.C. et al. (2007): Long-term feeding ecology and habitat use in harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena from Scandinavian waters inferred from trace elements and stable isotopes. BMC Ecology 7(): 1. Goetz, K.T. et al. (2006): Habitat use in a marine ecosystem: Beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series 330(): 247-256. Goméz de Segura, A. et al. (2007): Comparing cetacean abundance estimates derived from spatial models and design-based line transect methods. Marine Ecology Progress Series 329(): 289-299. Hao, Y.J. et al. (2006): Serum concentrations of gonadotropins and steroid hormones of Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis in middle and lower regions of the Yangtze River. Theriogenology 67(4): 673-680. Joergensen, M. (2007): First photographed observation of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Svalbard. Polar Record 43(1): 73-74. Krahn, M.M. et al. (2007): Use of chemical tracers in assessing the diet and foraging regions of eastern North Pacific killer whales. Marine Environmental Research 63(2): 91-114. Mangerud, J. et al. (2006): Marine (14)C reservoir ages for 19th century whales and molluscs from the North Atlantic. Quaternary Science Reviews 25(23-24): 3228-3245. Olavarría, C. et al. (2007): Population structure of South Pacific humpback whales and the origin of the eastern Polynesian breeding grounds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 330(): 257-268. Oleson, E.M. et al. (2007): Behavioral context of call production by eastern North Pacific blue whales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 330(): 269-284. Paniz-Mondolfi, A.E., O.R. Jaimes, and L.D. Jones (2007): Lobomycosis in Venezuela. International Journal of Dermatology 46(2): 180-185. Thompson, P.M. (2007): Developing water quality standards for coastal dolphins. Marine Pollution Bulletin 54(2): 123-127. Urashima, T. et al. (2006): Chemical characterization of the oligosaccharides in Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni) and Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis lesson) milk. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 146(2): 153-159. Watanabe, N. et al. (2007): Molecular cloning and histological localization of LH-like substances in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) placenta. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 146(1): 105-118. Westgate, A.J. and A.J. Read (2007): Reproduction in short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) from the western North Atlantic. Marine Biology 150(5): 1011-1024. Yang, J., H. Harino, and N. Miyazaki (2006): Transplacental transfer of phenyltins from a pregnant Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) to her fetus. Chemosphere 67(2): 244-249. Gaston, A.J. et al. (2007): Birds and marine mammals in southwestern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Record 43(1): 33-47. Wilson, D.M. (2007): THE S.S. TERRA NOVA (1884-1943): FROM THE ARCTIC TO THE ANTARCTIC, WHALER, SEALER AND POLAR EXPLORATION SHIP. Michael C. Tarver. 2006. Brixham, Devon: Pendragon Maritime Publications. 256 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-9552208-0-7. £30.00. Polar Record 43(1): 80-81. PINNIPEDIA Austin, D. et al. (2006): Linking movement, diving, and habitat to foraging success in a large marine predator. Ecology 87(12): 3095-3108. Buckles, E.L. et al. (2007): Age-prevalence of Otarine Herpesvirus-1, a tumor-associated virus, and possibility of its sexual transmission in California sea lions. Veterinary Microbiology 120(1-2): 1-8. Clark, C.A. et al. (2006): A longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis of total body oxygen store development in nursing harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 177(2): 217-227. Harcourt, R.G. et al. (2007): Paternity analysis shows experience, not age, enhances mating success in an aquatically mating pinniped, the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61(4): 643-652. Lalas, C. et al. (2007): Predation by New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) as a threat to the viability of yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) at Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. Biological Conservation 135(2): 235-246. Martina, B.E. et al. (2007): In vitro and in vivo replication of seal gammaherpesviruses in cells of multiple species. Microbes and Infection 9(1): 40-46. Quakenbush, L.T. (2007): Polybrominated diphenyl ether compounds in ringed, bearded, spotted, and ribbon seals from the Alaskan Bering Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 54(2): 232-236. Sanvito, S., F. Galimberti, and E.H. Miller (2007): Observational Evidences of Vocal Learning in Southern Elephant Seals: a Longitudinal Study. Ethology 113(2): 137-146. Sanvito, S., F. Galimberti, and E.H. Miller (2007): Vocal signalling of male southern elephant seals is honest but imprecise. Animal Behaviour 73(2): 287-299. Sparling, C.E., M.A. Fedak, and D. Thompson (2007): Eat now, pay later? Evidence of deferred food-processing costs in diving seals. Biology Letters 3(1): 94-98. Wang, D. et al. (2007): Organochlorines in harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) tissues from the northern Gulf of Alaska. Environmental Pollution 146(1): 268-280. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Dietz, R. et al. (2006): Age and seasonal variability of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in free-ranging East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Environmental Pollution 146(1): 166-173. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de