Dear all, here are some new publications of week 05/ 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 Harley, H.E. (2007): Whistle discrimination and categorization by the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): A review of the signature whistle framework and a perceptual test. Behavioural Processes 77(2): 243-268. Mercado, E., 3rd., S.R. Green, and J.N. Schneider (2007): Understanding auditory distance estimation by humpback whales: A computational approach. Behavioral Processes 77(2): 231-242. Nigenda-Morales, S. et al. (2007): MHC DQB-1 Polymorphism in the Gulf of California Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) Population. Journal of Heredity 99(1): 14-21. Simard, P., J.L. Lawlor, and S. Gowans (2006): Temporal Variability of Cetaceans near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(1): 93-99. Stavros, H.C. et al. (2007): Trace element concentrations in blood of free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Influence of age, sex and location. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56(2): 371-379. PINNIPEDIA Stegall, V.K. et al. (2008): Discrimination of carbon and nitrogen isotopes from milk to serum and vibrissae in Alaska Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 86(1): 17-23. Suzuki, M. et al. (2008): Localization of aquaporin-2, renal morphology and urine composition in the bottlenose dolphin and the Baird's beaked whale. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 178(2): 149-156. Moser, I. et al. (2007): Mycobacterium pinnipedii: Transmission from South American sea lion (Otaria byronia) to Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus bactrianus) and Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus). Veterinary Microbiology 127(3-4): 399-406. Yoshimura, K. et al. (2007): Scanning electron microscopic study on the tongue and lingual papillae of the adult Spotted seal, Phoca largha. Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica 84(3): 83-97. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de