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Uluru Sunset Water dragon, Sydney

Associate Professor

Department of Biology
P.O. Box 261954
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, SC 29528-6054
Voice: 843-349-2491
Fax: 843-349-2201
E-mail: sparker@coastal.edu

Education

  2006 Ph.D. Biological Sciences , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  2001 M.S. Biological Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino
  1998 B.S. Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

Professional Experience

  2010 Assistant Professor of Biology, Coastal Carolina Univeristy , Conway, SC
  2006-2009 Post-doctoral fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia

Teaching

 BIOL 122 Biological Science II
  BIOL 322/322L Physiological Ecology Lecture/Laboratory
  BIOL 343/343L Comparative Physiology Lecture/Laboratory
BIOL 397           Comparative Vertebrate Reproductive Physiology
BIOL 417/417L Herpetology Lecture/Laboratory
  CMWS 697/698 Graduate Seminar I and II (co-taught)
  CMWS 699 Graduate Seminar III

Research interests

  Evolution of viviparity in squamate reptiles
Water dragon hatching
  Physiological ecology of reptilian eggs and embryos
  Maternal-embryo nutrient transport in viviparous reptiles
 

Physiological ecology of diamondback terrapin

  Influence of global climate change on distributional limits

Current research projects

 
  • Influence of temperature and hypoxia on embryo growth and differentiation
 
  • Spatial and reproductive ecology of diamondback terrapin
    Spatial ecology of copperhead snakes

 
  • Structural and functional ontogeny of extra-embryonic membranes in gekkonid lizards

     

 

Publications

Buzuleciu SA*, ME Spencer, and SL Parker. 2015. Predator exclusion cage for turtle nests: a novel design. Chelonian Conservation and Biology (In press)

Flewelling S*. and SL Parker. 2015. Effects of temperature and oxygen on growth and differentiation of embryos of the ground skink, Scincella lateralis. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology 323: 445–455.

Parker SL. 2014. Physiological ecology of the ground skink, Scincella lateralis in South Carolina: thermal biology, metabolism, water Loss, and seasonal patterns. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 9: 309-321.

Biazik, JM, SL Parker, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2012. Uterine Epithelial Morphology and Progesterone Receptors in a Mifepristone-treated Viviparous Lizard Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii (Squamata: Scincidae) During Gestation. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 318: 148-158.

Biazik, JM, SL Parker, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2011. Uterine Epithelial Morphology and Progesterone Receptors in a Mifepristone-treated Viviparous Lizard Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii (Squamata: Scincidae) During Gestation. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (In press)

Ramírez-Pinilla, MP, SL Parker, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2011. Variation in the uterine and chorioallantoic angiogenesis and epithelial luminal surfaces during gestation in the viviparous lizard Niveoscincus coventryi (Squamata: Scincidae) Journal of Morphology (in press)

Murphy, BF, SL Parker, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2011. Placentation in the eastern water skink (Eulamprus quoyii) and a new model for the evolution of viviparity in lizards. Journal of Anatomy 218: 678-689

Murphy, BF, SL Parker, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2010. Uterine angiogenesis in the eastern water skink Eulamprus quoyii. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 3340-3347

Stewart JR, AN Mathieson, TW Ecay, JF Herbert, SL Parker, and MB Thompson. 2010. Uterine and Eggshell Structure and Histochemistry in a Lizard with Prolonged Uterine Egg Retention (Lacertilia, Scincidae, Saiphos). Journal of Morphology 271:1342-1351.

Parker SL, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2010. Uterine angiogenesis in squamate reptiles: implications for the evolution of viviparity. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5 (2):325-329.

MB Thompson, DG Blackburn, and SL Parker. 2010. Reproduction in reptiles from genes to ecology: a retrospective and prospective vision. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5 (2):252-256.

Parker SL, F. Manconi, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2010. Uterine and placental angiogenesis in the Australian skinks Ctenotus taeniolatus and Saiphos equalis. The Anatomical Record 293: 829-838.

Linville BJ, JR Stewart, TW Ecay, JF Herbert, SL Parker, and MB Thompson. 2010. Placental calcium provision in a lizard with prolonged oviductal egg retention. Journal of Comparative Physiology 180:221-227.

Wu Q, SL Parker, and MB Thompson 2009. Selected body temperature, metabolic rate and activity pattern of the Australian fossorial skink, Saiphos equalis. The Herpetological Journal 19(3): 127-133.

Parker SL, CR Murphy and MB Thompson. 2008. Angiogenesis in the uterus of the three-toed skink, Saiphos equalis. 4th Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Meeting in Africa: Mara 2008. “Molecules to migration: The pressures of life” (Ed S. Morris & A. Vosloo). Medimond Publishing Co, via Maserati 6/2, 40124 Bologna, Italy. Pp. 1 – 6.

Parker SL, LA Lindsay, JF Herbert, CR Murphy, and MB Thompson. 2008. Expression and localization of Ca2+-ATPase in the uterus during the reproductive cycle of king quail (Coturnix chinensis) and zebra finch (Poephila guttata). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 149(1): 30-35.

Parker SL, and RM Andrews. 2007. Incubation temperature and phenotypic traits of Sceloporus undulatus: implications for the northern limits of distribution. Oecologia 151 (2): 218-231.

Parker SL, and RM Andrews. 2006. Evolution of viviparity in sceloporine lizards: in utero  PO2 as a developmental constraint during egg retention. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79: 581-592.

Parker SL, RM Andrews, and T Mathies. 2004. Embryonic responses to variation in oviductal    oxygen concentration in the lizard Sceloporus undulatus from New Jersey and South Carolina, U.S.A. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (3): 289-299.

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This page was last updated on 08/25/2015