Kinsey Brock
Position: Postdoc
Email: kbrock@berkeley.edu
Office: 217 Hilgard Hall
Research Interests: herpetology, trait evolution, island biology, urban evolutionary biology, wallies
View Kinsey’s website here.
Research Description: Kinsey studies how evolutionary history, the environment, and biological factors shape lizard ecology and phenotypic variation. She is particularly interested in wall lizards (wallies), and uses a combination of large scale field studies, genomics, and physiological and behavioral experiments to study them in their native and introduced environments. Kinsey is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow working on identifying environmental and genomic drivers of color morph variation in Aegean island wallies. Her favorite part about research is taking Berkeley undergraduates to the Greek islands every summer to do field research on island lizards.
Honors & Awards:
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021)
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey Award, UC Merced (2021)
University of California Outstanding Student Leadership Award (2020)
Recent Publications:
Amer A, Spears S, Vaughn PL, Livingston EH, McQueen W, Schill A, Reichard D, ††Gangloff EJ, ††Brock KM. 2023. Physiological phenotypes differ among color morphs in introduced populations of the common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis. Integrative Zoology (in press).
††McLaughlin JF, ††Brock KM, Gates I, Pethkar A, Piattoni M, Rossi A, Lipshutz SE. 2023. Multivariate models of animal sex: breaking binaries leads to a better understanding of ecology and evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Thompson A, Kapsanaki V, Liwanag H, Pafilis P, Wang I J, Brock KM. 2023. Some like it hotter: differential thermal preferences among intraspecific lizard color morphs. Journal of Thermal Biology.
Stadler SR, Brock KM, Bednekoff, P., Foufopoulos, J. 2022. More and bigger lizards on islands with more resources. Journal of Zoology.
Brock KM, McTavish EJ, Edwards DL. 2022. Color polymorphism is a driver of diversification in the lizard family Lacertidae. Systematic Biology.
Brock KM, Chelini MC, Madden IE, Ramos C, Ayton C, Blois JL, Pafilis P, Edwards DL. 2022. Morph predicts social behavior and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii). Animal Behaviour.
Brock KM, Madden IE, Rosso AA, Ramos C, Degen R, Stadler SR, Ayton C, Fernandez MEL, Reyes Servin J. 2022. Patterns of colour morph diversity across populations of Aegean wall lizard (Podarcis erhardii). Herpetology Notes.
Brock KM, Madden IE. 2022. Morph-specific differences in escape behaviors in a color polymorphic lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
BeVier GT, Ayton C, Brock KM. 2022. It ain’t easy being orange: lizard colour morphs occupying highly vegetated microhabitats suffer greater ectoparasitism. Amphibia-Reptilia.
Patharkar T, Van Passel L, Brock KM. 2022. Eat or be eaten? An observation of Podarcis erhardii consuming saurophagus Scolopendra cingulata from Andros island, Cyclades, Greece. Herpetozoa.