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Smiley, K.O.*, Munley, K.M., Lipshutz, S.E., Patton, T.M., Pradhan, D.S., Solomon-Lane, T.K., Sun, S.D., 2024. Sex variability in the 21st century: Concepts, frameworks, and approaches for the future of neuroendocrinology. Hormones and Behavior 157, 105445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105445 *Invited author for Special Issue: Sex/gender diversity and behavioral neuroendocrinology in the 21st century.

Smiley, K.O.*, Phillipps, H.R., Fang, C., Brown, R.S.E., Grattan, D.R., 2023. Mating-induced prolactin surge is not required for subsequent neurogenesis in male mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 17, 1227726. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1227726 *Invited author for Special Issue: Plasticity and Flexibility in the Parental Brain.

Smiley, K.O., Brown, R.S.E., and Grattan, D.R., 2022. Prolactin action in the brain is required for paternal care in the mouse. Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (44) 8308-8327. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0558-22.2022 

Smiley, K.O., Lipshutz, S.E., Kimmitt, A.A., DeVries, M.S., Cain, K.E., George, E.M., Covino, K.M., 2022. Beyond a biased binary: A perspective on the misconceptions, challenges, and implications of studying females in avian behavioral endocrinology. Frontiers in Physiology: Rising Stars in Avian Physiology. 13:970603.

Stagkourakis, S., Smiley, K.O., Williams, P., Kakadellis, S., Ziegler, K., Bakker, J., Harkany, T., Brown, R.S.E., Grattan, D.R., and Broberger, C., 2020. A neuro-hormonal circuit for paternal behavior controlled by a hypothalamic network oscillation. Cell 182, 960-975.

Garratt, M., Try, H., Smiley, K.O., Grattan, D.R., Brooks, R.C., 2020. Mating in the absence of fertilization promotes a growth-reproduction versus lifespan trade-off in female mice. PNAS 117, 15748–15754.

Smiley, K.O., Buntin, J., Corbitt, C., and Deviche, P., 2020. Central prolactin binding site densities change seasonally in an adult male passerine bird (Junco hyemalis). Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, 106, 101786.

Smiley, K.O., Dong, L., Ramakrishnan, S., and Adkins-Regan, E., 2020. Central prolactin receptor distribution and pStat5 activation patterns in breeding and non-breeding zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). In Press, General and Comparative Endocrinology.

Smiley, K.O.* 2019. Prolactin and avian parental care: New insights and unanswered questions. Hormones and Behavior, 111, 114-130. *Invited review for Young Investigator Award - Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Smiley, K.O. and Adkins-Regan, E., 2018. Factors that influence the onset of parental care in zebra finches: Roles for egg stimuli and prolactin, Behavioural Processes, 153, 47-54.

Smiley, K.O., Adkins-Regan, E., 2018. Lowering prolactin reduces post-hatch parental care in male and female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Hormones and Behavior. 98, 103–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.12.011

Crino, O.L., Buchanan, K.L., Fanson, B.G., Hurley, L.L., Smiley, K.O., Griffith, S.C., 2017. Divorce in the socially monogamous zebra finch: Hormonal mechanisms and reproductive consequences. Hormones and Behavior. 87, 155–163.

Smiley, K.O. and Adkins-Regan, E. 2016. Prolactin is related to individual differences in parental behavior and reproductive success in a biparental passerine, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), General and Comparative Endocrinology, 234, 88-94. 

Smiley, K.O. and Adkins-Regan, E. 2016. Relationship between prolactin and previous parental care experience in a biparental songbird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), General and Comparative Endocrinology, 232, 17-24.

Adkins-Regan, E., Baran, N.M., Fernandez-Vargas, M., Kelly, E.M., and Smiley, K.O. 2014. Book review: Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior, Edited by Elena Choleris, Donald W. Pfaff, & Martin Kavaliers. Animal Behavior, 87, 239-241.

Smiley, K.O., Vahaba, D.M. and Tomaszycki, M.L. 2012. Behavioral effects of progesterone on pair bonding and partner preference in the female zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Behavioural processes 90, 210-6.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Pereira, M., Smiley, K.O., and Lonstein, J.S. 2022. Parental Behavior in Rodents. Chapter in: Patterns of Parental Behavior: from Animal Science to Comparative Ethology and Neuroscience. González-Mariscal, G. (Ed).

Smiley K.O., Ladyman S.R., Gustafson P., Grattan D.R., Brown R.S.E. 2019. Neuroendocrinology and Adaptive Physiology of Maternal Care. Chapter in Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 43:161-210. Colen, L.M. and Grattan, D.R. (Eds).

Adkins-Regan, E. and Smiley, K.O. 2019. Parental Behavior and Hormones in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates. Chapter in: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Second Edition. Choe, J. (Ed). 

Castelli, F.R., Smiley, K.O., and Adkins-Regan, E. 2013. Courtship and pairing behavior in male and female zebra finches. In: Hare, J.F. The Norton Animal Behavior DVD for Principles of Animal Behavior, Second Edition. New York: W.W. Norton. (Educational video supplement to textbook)