Alex Gunderson, Doctoral Student Biology

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Web Page:	http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/grad/alexander.gunderson

Education:

MS	College of William and Mary	2007
BS	Minnesota State University, Mankato	2004

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Leal, M and A.R. Gunderson, Rapid change in the thermal tolerance of a tropical lizard, The American Naturalist, vol. 180 (2012), pp. 815-822
2. Gunderson, A. and M. Leal, Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard, Functional Ecology, vol. 26 (2012), pp. 783-793
3. Gunderson, A.R., J. Siegel, M. Leal, Tests of the contribution of acclimation to geographic variation in water loss rates of the West Indian lizard Anolis cristatellus, Journal of Comparative Physiology B, vol. 181 (2011), pp. 965-972
4. Gunderson, A.R., M.H. Forsyth, and J.P. Swaddle, Evidence that plumage bacteria influence feather coloration and body condition of eastern bluebirds, Sialia sialis., Journal of Avian Biology, vol. 40 (2009), pp. 440-447
5. Gunderson, A.R., Feather-degrading bacteria: a new frontier in avian and host-parasite research?, Auk, vol. 125 no. 4 (2008), pp. 972-979
6. Gunderson, A.R., A.M. Frame, J.P. Swaddle and M.H. Forsyth, Resistance of melanized feathers to bacterial degradation: is it really so black and white?, Journal of Avian Biology, vol. 39 (2008), pp. 539-545