Dear all, here are some new publications of week 16/ 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 Budge, S.M. et al. (2008): Blubber fatty acid composition of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus: Implications for diet assessment and ecosystem monitoring. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 359(1): 40-46. Pringle, H. (2008): Society for American Archaeology meeting. Signs of the first whale hunters. Science 320(5873): 175. Spinsanti, G. et al. (2008): Selection of reliable reference genes for qRT-PCR studies on cetacean fibroblast cultures exposed to OCs, PBDEs, and 17beta-estradiol. Aquatic Toxicology 87(3): 178-186. PINNIPEDIA Härkönen, T.J. et al. (2008): Mass mortality in harbour seals and harbour porpoises caused by an unknown pathogen. The Veterinary Record 162(17): 555-556. Rozengart, E.V. and N.E. Basova (2007): Enzymological characteristic of the cholinesterase from the caudate nucleus of the Ladoga seal (Phoca hispida ladogensis) brain. Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics 416(1-6): 260-263. Southwell, C. et al. (2008): Uncommon or cryptic? Challenges in estimating leopard seal abundance by conventional but state-of-the-art methods. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 55(4): 519-531. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Stevens, H. et al. (2008): Novel papillomavirus isolated from the oral mucosa of a polar bear does not cluster with other papillomaviruses of carnivores. Veterinary Microbiology 129(1-2): 108-116. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de _______________________________________________ MARMAM mailing list MARMAM@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam
