Bock SL, Smaga CR, McCoy JA, Parrott BB. Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns harbor signatures of hatchling sex and past incubation temperature in a species with environmental sex determination. 2022. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16670
Hale MD, Koal T, Hai Pham T, Bowden JA, Parrott BB. Transcriptional networks underlying a primary ovarian insufficiency disorder in alligators naturally exposed to EDCs. 2022. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. j.mce.2022.111751
Gardner S, Bertucci EM, Sutton R, Horcher A, Aubrey D, Parrott BB. Development of DNA methylation-based epigenetic age predictors in Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). 2022. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13698
Smaga CR, Bock SL, Johnson JM, Parrott BB. Sex determination and ovarian development in reptiles and amphibians: From genetic pathways and to environmental influences. 2022. Sexual Development. In Press
Bailey A, Rainwater TR, Lowers RH, Parrott BB, Wilkinson PM, Bowden JA, Rice C. Quantifying circulating IgY antibody responses against select opportunistic bacterial pathogens and correlations with body condition factors in wild American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis. 2022. Biology In Press
Bertucci EM, Mason MW, Rhodes OE, Parrott BB. Exposure to ionizing radiation disrupts normal epigenetic aging in Japanese medaka. 2021. Aging 13(19):22752 https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203624
Mason MW, Bertucci EM, Parrott BB. Transient copper exposure during embryogenesis and temperature affect developmental rate, survival, and fin regeneration in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). 2021. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry.
https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5276
Bae J, Bertucci EM, Bock SL, Hale MD, Moore J, Wilkinson PM, Rainwater TR, Bowden JA, Koal T, PhamTuan H, Parrott BB. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors interact during development to influence telomere length in a long-lived reptile. 2021. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16017
Bock SL, Hale MD, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Parrott BB. Interactive effects of thermal variability, contaminant exposure, and maternal provisioning on hatchling phenotypes in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. 2021. The Biological Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1086/714572
LaVere AA, Hamlin HJ, Lowers RH, Parrott BB, Ezenwa VO. Associations between testosterone and immune activity in alligators depend on bacteria species and temperature. 2021. Functional Ecology. In Press https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13756
Hale MD, Parrott BB. Assessing the ability of developmentally precocious estrogen signaling to recapitulate ovarian transcriptomes and follicle dynamics in alligators from a contaminated lake. 2020. Environmental Health Perspectives 128(11):117003
Bock SL, Hale MD, Leri FM, Wilkinson PM, Rainwater TR, Parrott BB. Post-transcriptional mechanisms respond rapidly to ecologically relevant thermal fluctuations during temperature-dependent sex determination. 2020. Integrative Organismal Biology. In Press
Boylan SM, Parrott BB, Lowers RH, Platt SG, Mazzotti FJ, Rainwater TR. Crocodylus moreletti (Morelet’s crocodile). Adult mortality. 2020. Herpetological Review. In Press
Rainwater TR, Griess J, Murphy TM, Boylan SM, Parrott BB, Kohno S, Rainwater KAE, Richards SM, Guillette M, Mills T, Platt SG, Wilkinson PM, Guillette LJ. Leucistic American alligator hatchlings in coastal South Carolina. 2020.Southeastern Naturalist. In Press
Botha H, Rainwater TR, Lowers RH, Parrott BB, Bowden JA, Guillette M, Guillette LJ. Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile). Growth and movement. 2020. Herpetological Review. In Press
Bertucci EM, Parrott BB. Is CpG density the link between epigenetic aging and lifespan? 2020. Trends in Genetics [Online Early View] [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2020.06.003]
Rhodes OE [and 52 others]. Integration of ecosystem science into radioecology: a consensus perspective. 2020. Science of the Total Environment 740:140031 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140031]
Bertucci EM, Mason MW, Camus A, Rhodes OE, Parrott BB. Chronic low dose irradiation alters the hepatic transcriptome, but not the global DNA methylome in medaka (Oryzias latipes). 2020. Science of the Total Environment729:138680 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138680]
Bock SL, Lowers RH, Rainwater TR, Stolen E, Drake JM, Wilkinson PM, Weiss S, Back B, Guillette Jr. LJ, Parrott BB. Ecological drivers of nest temperature variation in the American alligator: implications of future environmental change for a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. 2020. [In Press at Proceedings of the Royal Society B]
Rashid DJ, Bradley R, Bailleul AM, Surya K, Woodward HN, Wu P, Wu YH, Menke DB, Minchey SG, Parrott BB, Bock SL, Merzdorf C, Narotzky E, Burke N, Horner JR, Chapman SC. Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups. 2020. [In Press at Scientific Reports]
Malpe M, McSwain L, Ng C, Kudyba K, Nicholson J, Brady M, Choksi V, Hudson A, Parrott BB, Schulz C. G-protein signaling is required for increasing germline stem cell division frequency in response to mating in Drosophila males. 2020. Scientific Reports 10: 3888 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60807-8)
Parrott BB, Bertucci EM. Epigenetic aging clocks in ecology and evolution. 2019. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34(9):767-770. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.06.008)
Zajdel JL, Lance SL, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Hale MD, Parrott BB. Mating dynamics and multiple paternity in a long-lived vertebrate. 2019. Ecology and Evolution 9: 10109-10121(https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5438)
Hale MD, Bertucci EM, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Parrott BB. The impact of maternally derived dioxins on embryonic development and hepatic AhR signaling in a long-lived apex predator. 2019. Chemosphere 229: 489-499. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.04.187)
Galligan TM, Hale MD, McCoy JA, Bermudez DS, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. Assessing impacts of precocious steroid exposure on thyroid physiology and gene expression programs in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2018. General and Comparative Endocrinology 271: 61-72. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.11.002)
Hale MD, McCoy JA, Doheny BM, Galligan TM, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. Embryonic estrogen exposure recapitulates persistent ovarian transcriptional programs in a model of environmental endocrine disruption. 2018. Biology of Reproduction. 100: 149-161 (doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioy165)
Hale MD, Cloy-McCoy JA, Doheny BM, and Parrott BB.Reproductive Biology of Crocodilians. 2018. In M. K. Skinner (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Reproduction. vol. 6, pp. 646–653. Academic Press: Elsevier. (doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20612-2)
Hale MD, Galligan TM, Rainwater TR, Moore BC, Wilkinson PM, Guillette LJ Jr, and Parrott BB.The AhR signaling pathway in the American alligator links historic exposures to modern day effects on offspring development. 2017. Environmental Pollution230: 1050-1061 (doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.07.065)
McCoy JA, Bangma JT, Reiner JL, Bowden JA, Schnorr J, Slowey M, O'Leary T, Guillette LJ, Parrott BB. Associations between perfluorinated alkyl acids in blood and ovarian follicular fluid and ovarian function in women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment. 2017 Science of the Total Environment (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.137)
McCoy JA, Hamlin HJ, Thayer L, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. The influence of thermal signals during embryonic development on intrasexual and sexually dimorphic gene expression and circulating steroid hormones in American alligator hatchlings (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. General and Comparative Endocrinology (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.04.011)
Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB, Nilsson E, Haque MM, Skinner MK. Epigenetic alterations in alligators from environmentally contaminated lakes. 2016. [In Press at General and Comparative Endocrinology, draft available upon request]
Doheny BM, Kohno S, Parrott BB, Guillette LJ Jr. In ovo treatment with an estrogen receptor alpha selective agonist causes precocious development of the female reproductive tract of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. General and Comparative Endocrinology (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.02.026).
Yatsu R, Miyagawa S, Kohno S, Parrott BB, Yamaguchi K, Miyakawa H, Shigenobu S, Guillette LJ, Iguchi T. RNA-seq analysis of the gonadal transcriptome during Alligator mississippiensis temperature-dependent sex determination and differentiation. 2016. BMC Genomics 17:77 (DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2396-9)
Nilsen FM*, Parrott BB*, Bowden JA*, Kassim BL, Somerville SE, Bryan TA, Bryan CE, Lange TR, Delaney JP, Brunell AM, Long SE, Guillette LJ Jr. Global DNA methylation loss associated with mercury contamination and aging in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. Science of the Total Environment 545-546: 389-397 (doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.059) *Denotes equal contribution of authors
McCoy JA*, Parrott BB*, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, and Guillette LJ Jr. Incubation prior to the canonical thermosensitive period determines sex in the American alligator. 2015. Reproduction 150(4): 279-87 (PMID: 26183894) *Denotes equal contribution of authors
Kohno S, Parrott BB, Yatsu R, Miyagawa S, Moore BC, Iguchi T, Guillette LJ, Jr. Gonadal Differentiation in Reptiles Exhibiting Environmental Sex Determination. 2014. Sexual Development 8: 208-226 (DOI: 10.1159/000358892)
Parrott BB, Bowden JA, Kohno S, Cloy-McCoy JA, Hale MD*, Bangma JT, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Kucklick JR, Guillette LJ Jr. Influence of tissue, age, and environmental quality on DNA methylation in Alligator mississippiensis. 2014. Reproduction 147(4): 503-14. (PMID: 24398872) *Represents authorship by a mentored undergraduate student
Parrott BB, Kohno S, Cloy-McCoy JA, Guillette LJ Jr. Differential Incubation Temperatures Result in Dimorphic DNA Methylation Patterning of the SOX9 and Aromatase Promoters in Gonads of Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Embryos. 2013. Biology of Reproduction 90(1):2. (PMID: 24227754)
Hudson A, Parrott BB, Qian Y, Schulz, C. A Temporal Signature of Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling Regulates the Differentiation of Germline Cells in Testes of Drosophila melanogaster. 2013. PLoS One 8(8): e70678. (PMID: 23940622)
Parrott BB, Hudson A, Brady R, Schulz C. Control of Germline Stem Cell Division Frequency—A Novel, Developmentally Regulated Role for Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling. 2012. PLoS One 7(5): e36460. (PMID: 22586473)
Parrott BB, Chiang Y, Hudson A, Sarkar A, Guiche A, Schulz C. 2011. Nucleoporin98-96 Function is Required for Transit Amplification Divisions in the Germ Line of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 6(9): e25087. (PMID: 21949861)
Gubbels MJ, Lehman M, Muthalagi M, Jerome ME, Brooks CF, Szatanek T, Flynn J, Parrott BB, Radke J, Striepen B, White MW. 2008. Forward Genetic Analysis of the Apicomplexan Cell Division Cycle in Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathogens 4(2): e36. (PMID: 18282098)
Hale MD, Koal T, Hai Pham T, Bowden JA, Parrott BB. Transcriptional networks underlying a primary ovarian insufficiency disorder in alligators naturally exposed to EDCs. 2022. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. j.mce.2022.111751
Gardner S, Bertucci EM, Sutton R, Horcher A, Aubrey D, Parrott BB. Development of DNA methylation-based epigenetic age predictors in Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). 2022. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13698
Smaga CR, Bock SL, Johnson JM, Parrott BB. Sex determination and ovarian development in reptiles and amphibians: From genetic pathways and to environmental influences. 2022. Sexual Development. In Press
Bailey A, Rainwater TR, Lowers RH, Parrott BB, Wilkinson PM, Bowden JA, Rice C. Quantifying circulating IgY antibody responses against select opportunistic bacterial pathogens and correlations with body condition factors in wild American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis. 2022. Biology In Press
Bertucci EM, Mason MW, Rhodes OE, Parrott BB. Exposure to ionizing radiation disrupts normal epigenetic aging in Japanese medaka. 2021. Aging 13(19):22752 https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203624
Mason MW, Bertucci EM, Parrott BB. Transient copper exposure during embryogenesis and temperature affect developmental rate, survival, and fin regeneration in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). 2021. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry.
https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5276
Bae J, Bertucci EM, Bock SL, Hale MD, Moore J, Wilkinson PM, Rainwater TR, Bowden JA, Koal T, PhamTuan H, Parrott BB. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors interact during development to influence telomere length in a long-lived reptile. 2021. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16017
Bock SL, Hale MD, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Parrott BB. Interactive effects of thermal variability, contaminant exposure, and maternal provisioning on hatchling phenotypes in a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. 2021. The Biological Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1086/714572
LaVere AA, Hamlin HJ, Lowers RH, Parrott BB, Ezenwa VO. Associations between testosterone and immune activity in alligators depend on bacteria species and temperature. 2021. Functional Ecology. In Press https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13756
Hale MD, Parrott BB. Assessing the ability of developmentally precocious estrogen signaling to recapitulate ovarian transcriptomes and follicle dynamics in alligators from a contaminated lake. 2020. Environmental Health Perspectives 128(11):117003
Bock SL, Hale MD, Leri FM, Wilkinson PM, Rainwater TR, Parrott BB. Post-transcriptional mechanisms respond rapidly to ecologically relevant thermal fluctuations during temperature-dependent sex determination. 2020. Integrative Organismal Biology. In Press
Boylan SM, Parrott BB, Lowers RH, Platt SG, Mazzotti FJ, Rainwater TR. Crocodylus moreletti (Morelet’s crocodile). Adult mortality. 2020. Herpetological Review. In Press
Rainwater TR, Griess J, Murphy TM, Boylan SM, Parrott BB, Kohno S, Rainwater KAE, Richards SM, Guillette M, Mills T, Platt SG, Wilkinson PM, Guillette LJ. Leucistic American alligator hatchlings in coastal South Carolina. 2020.Southeastern Naturalist. In Press
Botha H, Rainwater TR, Lowers RH, Parrott BB, Bowden JA, Guillette M, Guillette LJ. Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile). Growth and movement. 2020. Herpetological Review. In Press
Bertucci EM, Parrott BB. Is CpG density the link between epigenetic aging and lifespan? 2020. Trends in Genetics [Online Early View] [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2020.06.003]
Rhodes OE [and 52 others]. Integration of ecosystem science into radioecology: a consensus perspective. 2020. Science of the Total Environment 740:140031 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140031]
Bertucci EM, Mason MW, Camus A, Rhodes OE, Parrott BB. Chronic low dose irradiation alters the hepatic transcriptome, but not the global DNA methylome in medaka (Oryzias latipes). 2020. Science of the Total Environment729:138680 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138680]
Bock SL, Lowers RH, Rainwater TR, Stolen E, Drake JM, Wilkinson PM, Weiss S, Back B, Guillette Jr. LJ, Parrott BB. Ecological drivers of nest temperature variation in the American alligator: implications of future environmental change for a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. 2020. [In Press at Proceedings of the Royal Society B]
Rashid DJ, Bradley R, Bailleul AM, Surya K, Woodward HN, Wu P, Wu YH, Menke DB, Minchey SG, Parrott BB, Bock SL, Merzdorf C, Narotzky E, Burke N, Horner JR, Chapman SC. Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups. 2020. [In Press at Scientific Reports]
Malpe M, McSwain L, Ng C, Kudyba K, Nicholson J, Brady M, Choksi V, Hudson A, Parrott BB, Schulz C. G-protein signaling is required for increasing germline stem cell division frequency in response to mating in Drosophila males. 2020. Scientific Reports 10: 3888 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60807-8)
Parrott BB, Bertucci EM. Epigenetic aging clocks in ecology and evolution. 2019. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34(9):767-770. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.06.008)
Zajdel JL, Lance SL, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Hale MD, Parrott BB. Mating dynamics and multiple paternity in a long-lived vertebrate. 2019. Ecology and Evolution 9: 10109-10121(https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5438)
Hale MD, Bertucci EM, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Parrott BB. The impact of maternally derived dioxins on embryonic development and hepatic AhR signaling in a long-lived apex predator. 2019. Chemosphere 229: 489-499. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.04.187)
Galligan TM, Hale MD, McCoy JA, Bermudez DS, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. Assessing impacts of precocious steroid exposure on thyroid physiology and gene expression programs in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2018. General and Comparative Endocrinology 271: 61-72. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.11.002)
Hale MD, McCoy JA, Doheny BM, Galligan TM, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. Embryonic estrogen exposure recapitulates persistent ovarian transcriptional programs in a model of environmental endocrine disruption. 2018. Biology of Reproduction. 100: 149-161 (doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioy165)
Hale MD, Cloy-McCoy JA, Doheny BM, and Parrott BB.Reproductive Biology of Crocodilians. 2018. In M. K. Skinner (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Reproduction. vol. 6, pp. 646–653. Academic Press: Elsevier. (doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20612-2)
Hale MD, Galligan TM, Rainwater TR, Moore BC, Wilkinson PM, Guillette LJ Jr, and Parrott BB.The AhR signaling pathway in the American alligator links historic exposures to modern day effects on offspring development. 2017. Environmental Pollution230: 1050-1061 (doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.07.065)
McCoy JA, Bangma JT, Reiner JL, Bowden JA, Schnorr J, Slowey M, O'Leary T, Guillette LJ, Parrott BB. Associations between perfluorinated alkyl acids in blood and ovarian follicular fluid and ovarian function in women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment. 2017 Science of the Total Environment (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.137)
McCoy JA, Hamlin HJ, Thayer L, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. The influence of thermal signals during embryonic development on intrasexual and sexually dimorphic gene expression and circulating steroid hormones in American alligator hatchlings (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. General and Comparative Endocrinology (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.04.011)
Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB, Nilsson E, Haque MM, Skinner MK. Epigenetic alterations in alligators from environmentally contaminated lakes. 2016. [In Press at General and Comparative Endocrinology, draft available upon request]
Doheny BM, Kohno S, Parrott BB, Guillette LJ Jr. In ovo treatment with an estrogen receptor alpha selective agonist causes precocious development of the female reproductive tract of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. General and Comparative Endocrinology (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.02.026).
Yatsu R, Miyagawa S, Kohno S, Parrott BB, Yamaguchi K, Miyakawa H, Shigenobu S, Guillette LJ, Iguchi T. RNA-seq analysis of the gonadal transcriptome during Alligator mississippiensis temperature-dependent sex determination and differentiation. 2016. BMC Genomics 17:77 (DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2396-9)
Nilsen FM*, Parrott BB*, Bowden JA*, Kassim BL, Somerville SE, Bryan TA, Bryan CE, Lange TR, Delaney JP, Brunell AM, Long SE, Guillette LJ Jr. Global DNA methylation loss associated with mercury contamination and aging in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. Science of the Total Environment 545-546: 389-397 (doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.059) *Denotes equal contribution of authors
McCoy JA*, Parrott BB*, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, and Guillette LJ Jr. Incubation prior to the canonical thermosensitive period determines sex in the American alligator. 2015. Reproduction 150(4): 279-87 (PMID: 26183894) *Denotes equal contribution of authors
Kohno S, Parrott BB, Yatsu R, Miyagawa S, Moore BC, Iguchi T, Guillette LJ, Jr. Gonadal Differentiation in Reptiles Exhibiting Environmental Sex Determination. 2014. Sexual Development 8: 208-226 (DOI: 10.1159/000358892)
Parrott BB, Bowden JA, Kohno S, Cloy-McCoy JA, Hale MD*, Bangma JT, Rainwater TR, Wilkinson PM, Kucklick JR, Guillette LJ Jr. Influence of tissue, age, and environmental quality on DNA methylation in Alligator mississippiensis. 2014. Reproduction 147(4): 503-14. (PMID: 24398872) *Represents authorship by a mentored undergraduate student
Parrott BB, Kohno S, Cloy-McCoy JA, Guillette LJ Jr. Differential Incubation Temperatures Result in Dimorphic DNA Methylation Patterning of the SOX9 and Aromatase Promoters in Gonads of Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Embryos. 2013. Biology of Reproduction 90(1):2. (PMID: 24227754)
Hudson A, Parrott BB, Qian Y, Schulz, C. A Temporal Signature of Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling Regulates the Differentiation of Germline Cells in Testes of Drosophila melanogaster. 2013. PLoS One 8(8): e70678. (PMID: 23940622)
Parrott BB, Hudson A, Brady R, Schulz C. Control of Germline Stem Cell Division Frequency—A Novel, Developmentally Regulated Role for Epidermal Growth Factor Signaling. 2012. PLoS One 7(5): e36460. (PMID: 22586473)
Parrott BB, Chiang Y, Hudson A, Sarkar A, Guiche A, Schulz C. 2011. Nucleoporin98-96 Function is Required for Transit Amplification Divisions in the Germ Line of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 6(9): e25087. (PMID: 21949861)
Gubbels MJ, Lehman M, Muthalagi M, Jerome ME, Brooks CF, Szatanek T, Flynn J, Parrott BB, Radke J, Striepen B, White MW. 2008. Forward Genetic Analysis of the Apicomplexan Cell Division Cycle in Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathogens 4(2): e36. (PMID: 18282098)