Recent papers

[Nancy]

Two research papers have been announced on TONMO.com in the last couple of weeks, but we have yet to put them here in this annoucement panel on the home page:

"Mating behavior of Abdopus aculeatus (d’Orbigny 1834) (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the wild"

Christine L. Huffard, Roy L. Caldwell, and Farnis Boneka

(Christine Huffard is mucktopus and Roy Caldwell is Neogonodactylus here on the site.)

Abdopus aculeatus mating paper out

"An experimental study of the effect of diet on the fatty acid profiles of the European Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)"

Miriam Fluckiger · George D. Jackson · Peter Nichols ·
Patti Virtue · Adam Daw · Simon Wotherspoon

(Adam Daw is marinebio_guy on Tonmo.)

Research paper. Hot of the press

and (added 5/18)

Occurance of squid in the diet of orange roughy -- Matt Jones (TONMO.com username: Infusoria)

 

[Major Mess]

Hello

Maybe we can use this thread as a general pot for interesting papers.
I just found this one:Miserez A, Li Y, Waite JH, Zok F.(2007): "Jumbo squid beaks: inspiration for design of robust organic composites." Acta Biomater; 3(1):139-49.

Jumbo squid beaks: inspiration for design of robust organic composites - PubMed
(I am just at my University, I dont know if it´s free to download; nevertheless the abstract is interesting, too!)

This paper deals with the beaks of giant squids. The researchers go for the question, how a soft invertebrate can handle their hard and sharp beak: They found, that the beak is very hard at the peak and getting softer at the connection to the muscles.

Greetings

 

[tonmo]

Thanks Major Mess -- the news wires also picked up on this; there's a thread in the Ceph News forum with coverage -- here.

 

[monty]

Reuters picked up Mucktopus' and Neogonodactylus' latest:

Love in the octopus' garden

congrats!

Is it just my imagination, or has news reporting about esoteric cephalopod research really been taking off in the popular press? I'm not sure if it was always there, and having octobot bring me the news stories every day has made me notice, or if it's really become more something reporters see as interesting to the general public... either way, I'm not complaining...

 

[DWhatley]

I think the former. My mother knew about the 6 legged octo (and I am no spring chicken)!

 

[mhorn]

May be it is not very new but still interesting & valuable book, carefully scanned by my colleague, available online:

Filippova Ju.A., Alekseev D.O., Bizikov V.A., Khromov D.N. (1997) Commercial and Mass Cephalopods of the World Ocean. A Manual for Identification. Moscow: VNIRO Publishing. 272 p. [in Russian] http://rogov.zwz.ru/Manuals&Classic...assovyh.vidov.Golovonogih.Mirovogo.okeana.pdf

 

[DWhatley]

mhorn,
Is there an English version available?

 

[Jean]

Smithsonian contributions to zoology are now available for down load
Smithsonian Contributions Series type cephalopod into the Title/abstract keyword search and it comes up with 12 issues. Big documents so they can be quite lengthy downloads.

J

 

[Steve O'Shea]

WOW

FINALLY

This is marvelous!

 

[Jean]

I was excited too, downloaded all....so computer was working while I was marking

J

 

[borjam]

In Spanish, published on the Spanish version of Scientific American:

Angel Guerra: "Estrategias Evolutivas de los Cefalopodos", 2006.

Investigación y Ciencia

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Very nice! Thanks borjam

 

[borjam]

Another one: Cephalopods experience massive acoustic trauma from noise pollution in the oceans.

LAB

 

[Stavros]

Cephalopod neurobiology: an introduction for biologists working in other model systems
CL Huffard - Invertebrate Neuroscience, 2013


Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of the Proteins Encoded by Coleoid (Cuttlefish, Octopus, and Squid) Posterior Venom Glands
T Ruder, K Sunagar, EAB Undheim, SA Ali, TC Wai… - Journal of Molecular …, 2013

Cephalopod Cognition in an Evolutionary Context: Implications for Ethology
JJ Vitti - Biosemiotics, 2013

 

[mucktopus]

This one looks like a great read! The W-shaped pupil in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis): functions for improving horizontal vision
Lydia M. Mäthger, Roger T. Hanlon, Jonas Håkansson, Dan-Eric Nilsson