[MARMAM] Special Issue publication on Anatomical Adaptations of Aquatic Mammals

[Joy Reidenberg]

MARMAMers:

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

I'd like to call your attention to the Special Issue of The  
Anatomical Record devoted to Anatomical Adaptations of Aquatic  
Mammals, Volume 290, Issue 6 (June 2007), Guest Edited by Joy S.  
Reidenberg.


"The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and  
Evolutionary Biology" (make sure you look for this specific journal  
title only, and not other older versions of Anatomical Record) can be  
accessed through the following link for PDF downloads:


http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/113463905

or

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/113463905? 
CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0




Articles in the Current Issue:

Editorials

The anatomical record under the sea: A history of reporting findings  
on the biology, adaptations, and evolution of mammals that inhabit a  
watery world (p 501-503)

Jeffrey T. Laitman, Kurt H. Albertine
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20543


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Introductions

Thar she blows 
<> and dives, and feeds, and talks, and hears, and thinks: The  
anatomical adaptations of aquatic mammals (p 504-506)

Jeffrey T. Laitman
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20542


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Anatomical adaptations of aquatic mammals (p 507-513)
Joy S. Reidenberg
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20541


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Research Articles

Evolution of marine mammals: Back to the sea after 300 million years  
(p 514-522)

Mark D. Uhen
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20545


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Use of tusks in feeding by dugongid sirenians: Observations and tests  
of hypotheses (p 523-538)

Daryl P. Domning, Brian L. Beatty
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20540


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Breaking symmetry: The marine environment, prey size, and the  
evolution of asymmetry in cetacean skulls (p 539-545)
C.D. Macleod, J.S. Reidenberg, M. Weller, M.B. Santos, J. Herman, J.  
Goold, G.J. Pierce

Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20539


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Adaptations of the cetacean hyolingual apparatus for aquatic feeding  
and thermoregulation (p 546-568)

Alexander J. Werth
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20538


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Blowing bubbles: An aquatic adaptation that risks protection of the  
respiratory tract in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) (p  
569-580)

Joy S. Reidenberg, Jeffrey T. Laitman
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20537


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Stomach anatomy and use in defining systemic relationships of the  
cetacean family ziphiidae (beaked whales) (p 581-595)

James G. Mead
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20536


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Structure of the integument of southern right whales, Eubalaena  
australis (p 596-613)

Desray Reeb, Peter Barrington Best, Susan Hillary Kidson
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20535


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Examination of the three-dimensional geometry of cetacean flukes  
using computed tomography scans: Hydrodynamic implications (p 614-623)

Frank E. Fish, John T. Beneski, Darlene R. Ketten
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20546


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Vertebral anatomy in the Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus  
latirostris: A developmental and evolutionary analysis (p 624-637)

Emily A. Buchholtz, Amy C. Booth, Katherine E. Webbink
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20534


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Sink or swim? Bone density as a mechanism for buoyancy control in  
early cetaceans (p 638-653)

Noel-Marie Gray, Kimberly Kainec, Sandra Madar, Lucas Tomko, Scott Wolfe
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20533


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Evolution of hyperphalangy and digit reduction in the cetacean manus  
(p 654-672)

Lisa Noelle Cooper, Annalisa Berta, Susan D. Dawson, Joy S. Reidenberg
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20532


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Forelimb myology of the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)  
(p 673-693)

Rebecca E. Fisher, Kathleen M. Scott, Virginia L. Naples
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20531


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Cetacean brains: How aquatic are they? (p 694-700)
Lori Marino
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20530


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Adaptive features of aquatic mammals' eye (p 701-715)
Alla M. Mass, Alexander YA. Supin
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20529


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Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: Anatomical  
adaptations for underwater hearing (p 716-733)
Sirpa Nummela, J.G.M. Thewissen, Sunil Bajpai, Taseer Hussain, Kishor  
Kumar

Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20528


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Anatomical predictions of hearing in the North Atlantic right whale  
(p 734-744)

Susan E. Parks, Darlene R. Ketten, Jennifer T. O'Malley, Julie Arruda
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20527


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Discovery of a low frequency sound source in Mysticeti (baleen  
whales): Anatomical establishment of a vocal fold homolog (p 745-759)

Joy S. Reidenberg, Jeffrey T. Laitman
Published Online: 21 May 2007
DOI: 10.1002/ar.2054

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[Joy Reidenberg]

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Joy Reidenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology
Mail Box 1007
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1 Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY 10029-6574 USA
voice: (212) 241-7563
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