Alex Gunderson
@agunderson.bsky.social
Assistant professor, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane. Eco-evo physiology, thermal biology, heavy metals, global change.
http://www.physiologicalecology.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7m2bmbsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
http://www.physiologicalecology.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7m2bmbsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extreme lead tolerance in an urban lizard
Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic heavy metal pollutant pervasive in many environments with serious health consequences for humans and wildlife. Identifying organisms that can serve as biomonitors of le...
www.biorxiv.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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