PUBLICATIONS
Pre-Prints
Bock, S.L., Hoekstra, L.A., Hagerty, K., Schmidt, R.E., Judson, J., Adorsoo, M., Singh, R., Janzen, F.J., Bronikowski, A.M. (preprint). Widespread sex-biased gene expression reflects female-biased longevity in a species with environmental sex determination. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.26.690843
Marks, J.R., Janzen, F.J., Reinke, B.A., Addis, E.A., Adesioye, O., Bock, S., Clark, M., Crowther, C., Hoekstra, L.A., Judson, J., Krueger, C., Sills, A.P., IISAGE Consortium, Bronikowski, A.M. (preprint). Sex- and age-differences in cellular hallmarks of aging in a species with female-biased longevity and environmental sex determination. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.10.693506
2026
Bock, S.L., Lyons, K., Yang, L., Wyffels, J., Adams, L., Klerks, N., Jessie, A., Leever, E., Hartl, T., Almunia, J., Peterson, D., Ferreira, A., Okamoto, J., Archibald, K., Spaulding, C., Leyden, K., Montano, G.A., Vasey, S., Rowland, A., Watson, L., Lopez, A., Hemdal, J., Stafford, M., Bronikowski, A., Naylor, G.J.P., Parrott, B.B. (2026). Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns predict age in the zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) and provide insight into the evolution of vertebrate aging. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70326
2025
Parrott, B.B. & Bock, S.L. (2025). An epigenomic threshold hypothesis for integrating dynamic environmental signals into functional models of developmental polyphenisms. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70099
Rayner, J.G, Bock, S.L., Lonski, A.J., Riddle, N.C., Wilkinson, G.S. (2025). Sex differences in DNA methylation in bats. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70021
Singh, R., Bock, S.L., Wilkinson, P.M., Platt, S., Song, B., Jachowski, C.M., Rainwater, T.R. (2025). Nest attendance by American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in coastal South Carolina. Herpetologica, 81(1), 61-76. https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-23-00037
Smaga, C.R., Bock, S.L., Johnson, J.M., Letter, A., Deem, V., Brunell, A., Paitz, R., Parrott, B.B. (2025). Maternal deposition of hormones and contaminants shape the gonadal transcriptome in American alligators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292, 2024105. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2105
2024
Smaga, C.R., Bock, S.L., Johnson, J.M., Rainwater, T.R., Singh, R., Deem, V., Letter, A., Brunell, A., Parrott, B.B. (2024). The influence of incubation temperature on offspring traits varies across northern and southern populations of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Ecology & Evolution, 14(2), e10915. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10915
2023
Bock, S.L., Loera, Y., Johnson, J.M., Smaga, C.R., Haskins, D.L., Tuberville, T.D., Singh, R., Rainwater, T.R., Wilkinson, P.M., Parrott, B.B. (2023). Differential early-life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a long-lived reptile. Functional Ecology, 37(11), 2895-2909. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14420
Johnson, J.M., Smaga, C.R., Bock, S.L., Parrott, B.B. (2023). Maternal provisioning interacts with incubation temperature to affect hatchling mercury exposure in an oviparous reptile. Biology Letters, 19(8), 20230097. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0097
Rogerson, G., Bock, S., Loera, Y., Parrott, B., Mulley, J.F. (2023). Incubation temperature alters stripe formation and head coloration in American alligator hatchlings and is unaffected by E2-induced sex reversal. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226(6), jeb245219. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245219
Johnson, J.M., Bock, S.L., Smaga, C.R., Lambert, M.R., Rainwater, T.R., Wilkinson, P.M., Parrott, B.B. (2023). Relationships between maternally transferred mercury and hatchling development, behavior, and survival in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Science of the Total Environment, 870, 162010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162010
2022
Smaga, C.R., Bock, S.L., Johnson, J.M., Parrott, B.B. (2022). Sex determination and ovarian development in reptiles and amphibians: Genetic pathways to environmental influences. Sexual Development, 17(2-3): 99-119. https://doi.org/10.1159/000526009
Bock, S.L., Smaga, C.R., Cloy-McCoy, J.A., Parrott, B.B. (2022). Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns harbor signatures of hatchling sex and past incubation temperature in a species with environmental sex determination. Molecular Ecology, 31, 5487-5505. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16670
2021
Bock, S.L., Chow, M.I., Forsgren, K.L., Lema, S.C. (2021). Widespread alterations to hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis signaling underlie high temperature reproductive inhibition in the eurythermal sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus). Molecular & Cellular Endocrinology, 537, 111447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2021.111447
Bae, J., Bertucci, E.M., Bock, S.L., Hale, M.D., Moore, J., Wilkinson, P.M., Rainwater, T.R., Bowden, J.A., Koal, T., PhamTuan, H., Parrott, B.B. (2021). Intrinsic and extrinsic factors interact during development to influence telomere length in a long-lived reptile. Molecular Ecology, 31, 6114-6127. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16017
Bock, S.L., Hale, M.D., Rainwater, T.R., Wilkinson, P.M., Parrott, B.B. (2021). Incubation temperature and maternal resource provisioning, but not contaminant exposure, shape hatchling phenotypes in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Biological Bulletin, 241, 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1086/714572
2020
Bock, S.L., Hale, M.D., Leri, F.M., Wilkinson, P.M., Rainwater, T.R., Parrott, B.B. (2020). Post-transcriptional mechanisms respond rapidly to ecologically relevant thermal fluctuations during temperature-dependent sex determination. Integrative Organismal Biology, obaa033. https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaa033
Bock, S.L.*, Lowers, R.H.*, Rainwater, T.R., Stolen, E., Drake, J.M., Wilkinson, P.M., Weiss, S., Back, B., Guillette, L.J.J., Parrott, B.B. (2020). Spatial and temporal variation in nest temperatures forecasts sex ratio skews in a crocodilian with environmental sex determination. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287, 20200210. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0210 (*equal authorship)
Rashid, D.J., Bradley, R., Bailleul, A.M., Woodward, H.N., Wu, P., Wu, Y.H., Menke, D.B., Minchey, S.G., Parrott, B.B., Bock, S.L., Merzdorf, C., Narotzky, E., Burke, N., Horner, J.R., Chapman, S.C. (2020). Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups. Scientific Reports, 10, 6303 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63264-5
2019
Lema, S.C., Bock, S.L., Malley, M.M., Elkins, E.A. (2019). Warmer waters beget smaller fish: evidence for reduced size and altered morphology in a desert pupfish following anthropogenic temperature change. Biology Letters, 15, 20190518. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0518
2016
Bock, S.L., Malley, M.M., Lema, S.C. (2016). Complete mitochondrial genome of the speckled dace Rhinichthys osculus, a widely distributed cyprinid minnow of western North America. Mitochondrial DNA, Part A, 27, 4416-4418. https://doi.org/10.3109/19401736.2015.1089551