Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An introduction to river dolphin species / Joseph Mark Shostell and Manuel Ruiz-García
  • Seasonal ecology of Inia in three river basins of South America (Orinoco, Amazon, and upper Madeira) / Tamara L. McGuire and Enzo Aliaga-Rossel
  • Conservation of the river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) in Bolivia / Enzo Aliaga-Rossel
  • Mobility of the axial regions in a captive Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) / Timothy D. Smith and Anne M. Burrows
  • The application of equation models to determine the age of pink river dolphin skulls / Luisa Fernanda Castellanos-Mora, Fernando Trujillo and Manuel Ruiz-García
  • Amazon River dolphin : high phylopatry due to restricted dispersion at large and short distances / Juliana A. Vianna [and others]
  • Amazon River dolphin polymorphism and population differentiation of MHC class II peptides / María Martínez-Agüero, Sergio Flores-Ramírez and Manuel Ruiz-García
  • Micro-geographical genetic structure of Inia geoffrensis in the Napo-Curaray River Basin by means of Chesser's models / Manuel Ruiz-García
  • Changes in the demographic trends of pink river dolphins (Inia) at the microgeographical level in Peruvian and Bolivian rivers and within the upper Amazon : microsatellites and mtDNA analyses and insights into Inia's origin / Manuel Ruiz-García
  • Fossil record and the evolutionary history of Iniodea / M.A. Cozzuol
  • Fishery activity impact on the Sotalia populations from the Amazon mouth / Sandra Beltrán-Pedreros and Miguel Petrere
  • Dolphin-fishery interaction : cost-benefit, social-economic and cultural considerations / Sandra Beltrán-Pedreros and Ligia Amaral Filgueiras-Henriques
  • Ethnoecology of Sotalia guianensis (Gervais, 1853) in the Amazon Estuary / Sandra Beltrán-Pedreros, Miguel Petrere and Ligia Amaral Filgueiras-Henriques
  • Molecular ecology and systematics of Sotalia dolphins / H.A. Cunha, da Silva VMF and A.M. Solé-Cava
  • Population structure and phylogeography of Tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia fluviatilis / Susana Caballero [and others]
  • Life history and ecology of franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei (Cetacea, Pontoporiidae) / Eduardo R. Secchi
  • Review on the threats and conservation status of franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei (Cetacea, Pontoporiidae) / Eduardo R. Secchi
  • Detection of Yangtze finless porpoises in the Poyang Lake mouth area via passive acoustic data-loggers / Songhai Li [and others]
  • Population status and conservation of baiji and the Yangtze finless porpoise / Ding Wang and Xiujiang Zhao
  • Failure of the baiji recovery program : conservation lessons for other freshwater cetaceans / Samuel T. Turvey
  • High level of MHC polymorphism in the baiji and finless porpoise, with special reference to possible convergent adaptation to the freshwater Yangtze River / Shixia Xu [and others]
  • Population status and conservation of the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) in the Indian subcontinent / R.K. Sinha, Sunil Kumar Verma and Lalji Singh
  • The evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships of the superfamily Platanistoidea / Lawrence G. Barnes, Toshiyuki Kimura and Stephen J. Godfrey.