Recent papers

**Nancy** · Mar 15, '08, 6:29pm

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.)

http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12584

"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.)

http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthre...t=12601&page=1

and (added 5/18)

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

**Major Mess** · Mar 28, '08, 3:45am

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.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum
(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** · Mar 28, '08, 6:28am

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

**monty** · Mar 31, '08, 11:00pm

Reuters picked up Mucktopus' and Neogonodactylus' latest:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scien...080401?sp=true

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** · Apr 01, '08, 1:30am

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

**mhorn** · Apr 26, '08, 11:16am

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&Classica...ogo.okeana.pdf

**DWhatley** · Apr 26, '08, 12:54pm

mhorn,
Is there an English version available?

**Jean** · May 27, '08, 12:26am

Smithsonian contributions to zoology are now available for down load
http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/ 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** · May 27, '08, 2:16am

WOW

FINALLY

This is marvelous!

**Jean** · May 27, '08, 4:52pm

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

J

**borjam** · Aug 10, '12, 8:23am

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

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

http://www.investigacionyciencia.es/...-06_guerra.pdf

**Architeuthoceras** · Aug 10, '12, 8:41am

Very nice! Thanks borjam

**borjam** · Sep 10, '12, 4:57pm

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

http://www.lab.upc.edu/index_link.ph...ntiers&lang=en

**Stavros** · Mar 07, '13, 10:59am

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** · Mar 12, '13, 12:19pm

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

**DWhatley** · Mar 12, '13, 11:59pm

Interesting abstract (includes a couple of nice graphical details) but it makes you wonder why all cephs don't share this feature.

**gjbarord** · Mar 13, '13, 5:27pm

One reason could be that cuttlefish spend a greater percentage of their lives in more of a horizontal position than other cephs...

Greg

**Stavros** · Mar 13, '13, 6:24pm

How squid swim and fly
RK ODor - Canadian Journal of Zoology

Call it sleep-what animals without backbones can tell us about the phylogeny of intrinsically generated neuromotor rhythms during early development.
MA Corner - Neuroscience bulletin, 2013

**DWhatley** · Mar 14, '13, 1:04am

Starvos, that one should be interesting as it uses the larger humboldt squid for the study and some new technology. I wonder if the "Accelerometry tags" are related internally to the accelerometers in phones and hand held computers. A quick look suggests there is a relationship.

**DWhatley** · Mar 14, '13, 1:09am

Originally Posted by gjbarord

One reason could be that cuttlefish spend a greater percentage of their lives in more of a horizontal position than other cephs...

Greg

Squid are pretty much horizontal swimmers I think and, please correct me if I am wrong, not all cuttlefish have the iris divider. With octopuses, it could get interesting and would likely be oriented differently. They do "squint" a lot and I have attributed that to too much light but now I wonder if it changes their vision similarly but on a different plane.