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Mary Mendonça, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Graduate Program Officer

Office Location:  319 Funchess Hall Mailing Address: Biological Sciences 331 Funchess Hall Auburn University, AL 36849 Tel: (334) 844-9246 GPO number (334) 844-4856 Lab: (334) 844-9338 Fax: (334) 844-9234 mendonca@auburn.edu Laboratory Web Page

Education
NRSA- Individual Post-doctoral Fellow. University of Texas, Austin
ARGS- Post-doctoral Fellow. University of Western Australia
PhD- University of California, Berkeley
MS- University of Central Florida
BA- Rutgers University, Newark

Research & Teaching Interests:
My research centers on how proximate environmental factors and physiological mechanisms are integrated at the neural level to control reproduction in a variety of vertebrates. I think of my research as being interdisciplinary and multi-level, combining both field and laboratory components.

Recent Publications:
Kahn, P, C. Guyer, and MT. Mendonça. 2007. Handling, blood sampling, and temporary captivity do not affect movement patterns of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Copeia 2007 614-621

Peterson, J, Wood, M., W.A. Hopkins, JM. Unrine and MT Mendonça. 2007. Comparison survey of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in Rana sphenocephela and Rana catesbeiana tadpoles inhabiting differentially contaminated wetlands at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina. J. Wildlife Disease. 43:450-460

Ward, C.K., C. Fontes, C. Breuner and M.T. Mendonça 2007. Characterization and quantification of corticosteroid binding globulin in a southern toad, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 152:82-88

Navara K.J., A.V. Badyaev, G.E. Hill, and M.T. Mendonça. 2006. Yolk antioxidants vary with male attractiveness and female condition in the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 79: 1098-1105

Badyaev, A.V., D. A. Seaman, K.J. Navara, G.E. Hill, M. T. Mendonça. 2006. Evolution of sex-biased maternal effects in birds: III. Adjustment of ovulation order enables sex-specific allocation of hormones, carotenoids, and vitamins. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:1044-1057.

Ward, C.K. and M.T. Mendonça. 2006. Chronic exposure to coal fly ash causes minimal changes to corticosterone and testosterone concentrations in the male southern toad, Bufo terrestris. Archives of Environmental Toxicology. 51(2):263-9

Navara, K.J.; L.M. Siefferman; G.E. Hill; M.T. Mendonça. 2006. Yolk androgens differ independently of maternal androgens in eastern bluebirds: an experimental study. Functional Ecology 20: 449-456

Ward, C.K.; A. Appell and M.T. Mendonça. 2006. Metabolic measures in male Southern Toads (Bufo terrestris) exposed to coal fly ash. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 143:353-360

Courses:

Undergraduate	Graduate
Human Anatomy and Physiology I and II	Vertebrate Reproductive Biology
Human Odyssey I and II	Hormones and Behavior
Physiological Ecology	Professional Aspects of Biology