KS Lynch. The neuroethology of avian brood parasitism. In press -Journal of Experimental Biology.
Orr, TJ, Burns, M, Hawkes, K, Holekamp, KE, Hook, KA, Josefson, CC, Kimmitt, AA, Lewis, AK, Lipshutz, SE, Lynch, KS and Sirot, LK. 2020. It takes two to tango: including a female perspective in reproductive biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60(3), pp.796-813.
KS Lynch and Ryan, M.J., 2020. Understanding the role of incentive salience in sexual decision-making. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
KS Lynch, MM Louder, C Friesen, LA. O’Connell, CN. Balakrishnan, EK Fischer, A Xiang*, A Steele*, J Shalov*. Examining the disconnect between prolactin and parental care in avian brood parasites. Genes, Brain and Behavior, p.e12653
G Cornez, J Langro*, CA Cornil, J Balthazart, KS Lynch. Perineuronal nets and parvalbumin development in brood parasitic species with delayed and socially-guided vocal learning. Journal of Experimental Biology 223, jeb212910. doi:10.1242/jeb.212910
KS Lynch, L O' Connell, M Louder, C Balakrishnan and E Fischer. 2019. Understanding the loss of maternal care in avian brood parasites using preoptic area transcriptome comparisons in brood parasitic and non-parasitic blackbirds. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 9(4), pp.1075-1084 (selected for journal cover).
MM, Louder, KS Lynch, S Lawson, CN Balakrishnan, ME Hauber. 2019. Neural mechanisms of auditory species recognition in birds. Biological Reviews.
KS Lynch, G Azieva*, A Pellicano*. 2018. Socially regulated estrogen in an eavesdropping brood parasite. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 269:166-170.
KS Lynch, M Louder and ME Hauber. 2018. Species-specific auditory forebrain responses to non-learned vocalizations in juvenile blackbirds. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 91: 193-200.
KS Lynch. 2018. Region-specific neuron recruitment in the hippocampus of brown-headed cowbirds Molothrus ater (Passeriformes: Icteridae). European Zoological Journal, 85: .46-54.
KS Lynch, A Gaglio*, E Tyler*, J Coculo*, M Louder, ME Hauber. 2017. A neural basis for password-based species recognition in an avian brood parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology: doi: 10.1242/jeb.158600.
KS Lynch. 2017. Understanding female receiver psychology in reproductive contexts. Integrative and Comparative Biology: doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx018, p 1-11.
KS Lynch and SA MacDougall-Shackleton, 2017. Integrating cognitive, motivational, and sensory biases underlying acoustic- and multimodal-based mate choice. Integrative and Comparative Biology: doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx114.
L Crothers, RA Saporito, J Yeager, KS Lynch, C Friesen, CL Richards-Zawacki, K McGraw, M Cummings. 2016. Warning signal properties covary with toxicity but not testosterone or aggregate carotenoids in a poison frog. Evolutionary Ecology: doi: 10.1007/s10682-016-9830-y. p 1-21.
KS Lynch, H Kleitz and GF Ball. 2013. HVC lesions modify immediate early gene expression in auditory forebrain regions of female songbirds. Developmental Neurobiology 73:315-23
KS Lynch, Diekamp, B and GF Ball. 2012. Co-localization of immediate early genes in catecholamine cells after song exposure in female zebra finches. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 79: 252 – 260.
KS Lynch, M Ramsey and ME Cummings 2012. Understanding the mate choice brain: a comparative gene profiling approach between female choice and male coercive poecillids. Genes, Brain & Behavior 11: 222-229.
W. Wilczynski and KS Lynch. 2011. Female sexual arousal in amphibians. Hormones and Behavior 59: 630-636.
TJ Stevenson, KS Lynch, P Lamda, GF Ball, and DJ Bernard. 2009. Cloning of gonadotropin-releasing hormone I complementary DNAs in songbirds facilitates dissection of mechanisms mediating seasonal changes in reproduction. Endocrinology 150: 1826-33.
KS Lynch and GF Ball. 2008. Noradrenergic deficits alter processing of communication signals in female songbirds. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 72:207-214.
KS Lynch, B Diekamp and GF Ball. 2008. Catecholaminergic cell groups and vocal communication in male songbirds. Physiology and Behavior 93: 870 – 876.
KS Lynch and W Wilczynski. 2008. Reproductive hormones modify reception of species-typical communication signals in a female anuran. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 71: 143 – 150.
KS Lynch and W Wilczynski. 2006. Social regulation of plasma estradiol concentration in a female Anuran. Hormones and Behavior 50, 101-106.
KS Lynch, D Crews, MJ Ryan, and W Wilczynski. 2006. Hormonal state influences aspects of female mate choice in the Túngara frog (Physalaemus pustulosus). Hormones and Behavior 49, 450 – 457.
W Wilczynski, KS Lynch and E.L. O’Bryant. 2006. Current research in amphibians: Studies integrating endocrinology, behavior and neurobiology. Hormones and Behavior 48, 440 – 450.
KS Lynch and W Wilczynski. 2005. Gonadal steroids vary with reproductive stage in a tropically breeding female anuran. General and Comparative Endocrinology 143: 51 –56.
KS Lynch, AS Rand, MJ Ryan and W Wilczynski. 2005. Plasticity in female mate choice associated with changing reproductive states. Animal Behaviour 69: 689-699.
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