Dear all, here are some new publications of week 12/ 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 Miyazaki, M. et al. (2008): Neptunomonas japonica sp. nov., an Osedax japonicus symbiont-like bacterium isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58(4): 866-871. Nystuen, J.A. et al. (2008): Spatial averaging of oceanic rainfall variability using underwater sound: Ionian Sea rainfall experiment 2004. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123(4): 1952-1962. Vela, A.I. et al. (2008): Lactobacillus ceti sp. nov., isolated from beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58(4): 891-894. Wang, S.S.-H. et al. (2008): Functional trade-offs in white matter axonal scaling. The Journal of Neuroscience 28(15): 4047-4056. Wiley, D.N. et al. (2008): Effectiveness of voluntary conservation agreements: case study of endangered whales and commercial whale watching. Conservation Biology 22(2): 450-457. PINNIPEDIA Meir, J.U. et al. (2008): Extreme blood oxygen depletion in diving elephant seals. The FASEB Journal 22(1_MeetingAbstracts): 757.7. Sims, D.W. et al. (2008): Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. Nature 451(82): 1098-1102. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Bechshoft, T.Ø. et al. (2008): Fluctuating asymmetry in metric traits; a practical example of calculating asymmetry, measurement error, and repeatability. Annales Zoologici Fennici 45(1): 32-38. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de _______________________________________________ MARMAM mailing list MARMAM@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam