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Deborah M Gordon

Professor, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
Member, Bio-X

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Email dmgordon@stanford.edu

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Gina Kaplan Administrative Assistant Email gkaplan@stanford.edu Tel Work 650-725-8650

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Fine-scale genetic structure and dispersal distance in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Suni SS, Gordon DM. Heredity. 2010; 104 (2): 168-73
The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants. Frederickson ME, Gordon DM. Ecology. 2009; 90 (6): 1595-607
Rainfall facilitates the spread, and time alters the impact, of the invasive Argentine ant. Heller NE, Sanders NJ, Shors JW, Gordon DM. Oecologia. 2008; 155 (2): 385-95
Male parentage in dependent-lineage populations of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Suni SS, Gignoux C, Gordon DM. Mol Ecol. 2007; 16 (24): 5149-55
Control without hierarchy. Gordon DM, Nature. 2007; 446 (7132): 143
The devil to pay: a cost of mutualism with Myrmelachista schumanni ants in 'devil's gardens' is increased herbivory on Duroia hirsuta trees. Frederickson ME, Gordon DM. Proc Biol Sci. 2007; 274 (1613): 1117-23
Brood production and lineage discrimination in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). Volny VP, Greene MJ, Gordon DM. Ecology. 2006; 87 (9): 2194-200
Task-specific expression of the foraging gene in harvester ants. Ingram KK, Oefner P, Gordon DM. Mol Ecol. 2005; 14 (3): 813-8
Ecology: 'Devil's gardens' bedevilled by ants. Frederickson ME, Greene MJ, Gordon DM. Nature. 2005; 437 (7058): 495-6
Social insects: Cuticular hydrocarbons inform task decisions. Greene MJ, Gordon DM. Nature. 2003; 423 (6935): 32
Genetic basis for queen-worker dimorphism in a social insect. Volny VP, Gordon DM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002; 99 (9): 6108-11
The regulation of foraging activity in red harvester ant colonies. Gordon DM, Am Nat. 2002; 159 (5): 509-18
A trade-off in task allocation between sensitivity to the environment and response time. Pereira HM, Gordon DM. J Theor Biol. 2001; 208 (2): 165-84
Qualitative and quantitative differences in cuticular hydrocarbons between laboratory and field colonies of Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Tissot M, Nelson DR, Gordon DM. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol. 2001; 130 (3): 349-58