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Thanks, Pete, and I will share your reply with NatureNS readers -- perhaps Dave Christie will forward also to NatureNB? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: "Hicklin,Peter [Sackville]" <Peter.Hicklin@EC.GC.CA> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:48:33 -0400 To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Subject: RE: re Quirks and Quarks, Nov. 4/06, on mud shrimp & omega-3 oils & sandpiper metabolism Thanks, Jim. This work was done by an MSc student (Dominique Maillet; University of Ottawa) and based on birds collected at our banding site (with all the necessary permits, of course) at Johnson's Mills, near Sackville. She published an excellent paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology which has received considerable attention (as further shown by the Quirks & Quarks item). I've always said that Corophium is a very special critter and Dominique's excellent work is clear proof of that! And I'm glad to see that it gets all the attention it deserves. It is simply further proof of how important the Bay of Fundy mudflats are and why they deserve full protection. Thanks for informing me as I had not seen the program. Cheers from Pete in Sackville. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:49 AM To: NatureNS Cc: Hicklin,Peter [Sackville]; Mike Dadswell; Mark Butler; Tyler Schulz; Gretchen Fitzgerald; Trevor Avery; Anna Redden; Jon Percy; Graham Daborn; Mike Brylinsky Subject: re Quirks and Quarks, Nov. 4/06, on mud shrimp & omega-3 oils & sandpiper metabolism Pete, This past Saturday's Quirks and Quarks at noon on CBC Radio One had an item called something like "performance-enhancing shrimp" and was about the omega-3 fatty acids being high in mud shrimps and how these oils help the metabolism on the semipalmated sandpipers on their non-stop flight from Fundy to South America by enhancing permeability of cell membranes, other pharmalogical effects, etc. (John Michel Weber (sp.?), Univ. of Ottawa). You can check it out by going to the Quirks Web-site and then choosing the most recent program -- just type "quirks" and Google it, then choose Quirks and Quarks Web-site, then Most Recent Program, then choose whatever item you wish to listen to. Also there will be links to abstracts of published work, other Web-sites, etc. However, at the moment CBC.Ca is experiencing problems with their Web-sites, and you may have to be a bit patient about accessing the Quirks site. Even if it takes a week or so to get at the site, they have an extensive archive of all their past shows going back many years, so that you will be able to find the Nov. 4th show without any trouble by clicking on Past Shows, where they are arranged chronologically by year and date. Other items on the Nov. 4 show concerned the seafood scare for 2048 (Boris Worm of Dal. Univ. et al., in Science), Archaeopteryx having flight feathers along its hind limbs as well as wings, toadfishes using urea rather than ammonia for waste removal (urea makes it more difficult for predators to detect toadfish by scent), performance-enhancing shrimp, Canada's math whiz Dr. Coxiter? (sp.?), and question about orbits of Neptune and Pluto and possible collision some day? Finally they have an upcoming Question Show, for which they are soliciting questions -- Q&Q t-shirt goes to each questioner selected. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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