Dr. Patricia C. Lopes

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Brenna N. Harris, Patricia C. Lopes, et al (2024) COVID-19 as a chronic stressor and the importance of individual identity: A data-driven look at academic productivity during the pandemic. General and Comparative Endocrinology 345:114394

Patricia C. Lopes, Madeleine Chang*, Faith Holloway*, Biola Fatusin*, Sachin Patel*, Chandler Siemonsma*, Morgan Kindel* (2024) The effect of acute isolation on neural molecular responses in the social decision-making network. BMC Genomics, 25:771

Chloe Josefson, …, Patricia C. Lopes, et al (2024) Balancing act: An interdisciplinary exploration of trade-offs in reproducing females. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64:1734-1756.

Madeleine Chang*, Patricia C. Lopes (2024) Acute social isolation changes the transcriptome of structures of the social decision-making network. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64, S84-S84.

Sebastian Stockmeier, Yuko Ulrich, Greg Albery, Sylvia Cremer, Patricia C. Lopes (2023) Behavioural defenses against parasites across host social structures. Functional Ecology 37: 809– 820

Patricia C. Lopes, Josh J. Faber-Hammond, Chandler Siemonsma*, Sachin Patel*, Suzy C. P. Renn (2023) The social environment alters neural responses to a lipopolysaccharide challenge. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 110:162-174

Susannah French, Greg Demas, Patricia C. Lopes (2023) From Mechanism to Ecosystem: Building Bridges Among Ecoimmunology, Psychoneuroimmunology, and Disease Ecology. Invited commentary for the Centenary Edition Journal of Experimental Biology 226: jeb245858

Patricia C. Lopes (2023) Responding to infection affects more than just the host. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38:799-801

Patricia C. Lopes, Brenna M. Gormally, Aubrey Emmi*, Delilah Schuermann*, Chathuni Liyanage*, Ursula K. Battie, Michael Romero (2022) Maternal responses in the face of infection risk. Integrative and Comparative Biology icac082.

Brenna M. Gormally, Kaelynn Bridgette*, Aubrey Emmi*, Delilah Schuermann*, Patricia C. Lopes (2022) Female presence does not increase testosterone but still ameliorates sickness behaviors in male Japanese quail. Royal Society Open Science 9:220450.

Patricia C. Lopes, Susannah S. French, Douglas C. Woodhams and Sandra A. Binning (2022) Infection avoidance behaviors across vertebrate taxa: patterns, process, and future directions. In: Ezenwa VO, Altizer S, Hall RJ, editors. Animal Behavior and Parasitism. Oxford University Press, 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895561.003.0014

Patricia C. Lopes (2022) Anticipating infection: how parasitism risk changes animal physiology. Functional Ecology 00:1–10.

Brenna M.G. Gormally, Patricia C. Lopes (2023) The effect of infection risk on female blood transcriptomics. General and Comparative Endocrinology 330:114139

Patricia C. Lopes and Robert de Bruijn (2021) Neurotranscriptomic changes associated with chick-directed parental care in adult non-reproductive Japanese quail. Scientific Reports 11:1-11

Patricia C. Lopes, Susannah S. French, Douglas C. Woodhams and Sandra A. Binning (2021) Sickness behaviors across vertebrate taxa: proximate and ultimate mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Biology 224:jeb225847

Aubrey Emmi*, Delilah Schuerman*, Brenna Gormally, Patricia C. Lopes (2021) Sickness behavior: What’s T got to do with it? Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61, E1108-E1109

Patricia C. Lopes and Anna K. Lindholm (2020) A selfish genetic element linked to increased lifespan impacts metabolism in female house mice. Journal of Experimental Biology 223:jeb212704.

Robert de Bruijn, Edena Khoshaba*, Faith Holloway*, Patricia C. Lopes (2020) HPA-axis functioning and parental care in Japanese quail. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60, E308-E308.

Faith Holloway*, Robert de Bruijn, Edena Khoshaba*, Patricia C. Lopes (2020) Neurogenomic changes during the transition to parental care in virgin Japanese quail. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60, E346-E346.

Patricia C. Lopes, Esther Carlitz, Morgan Kindel*, Barbara König (2020) Immune-endocrine links to gregariousness in wild house mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 14:10.

Patricia C. Lopes (2020) We are not alone in trying to be alone. (2020) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:172

Robert de Bruijn, Edena Khoshaba*, Faith Holloway* and Patricia C. Lopes (2020) Baseline corticosterone is associated with parental care in virgin Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). Hormones and Behavior 124:104781

Patricia C. Lopes and Barbara König (2020) Wild mice with different social network sizes differ in brain gene expression. BMC Genomics 21:506

Can Peripheral Immunity of Healthy Animals Affect Social Behavior? M Kindel, B Konig, PC Lopes INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 59, E348-E348

Why do We Feel Sick When Infected? PC Lopes INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 59, E140-E140

No evidence for kin protection in the expression of sickness behaviors in house mice BK PC Lopes, P Block, A Pontiggia, AK Lindholm Scientific Reports 8, 16682

How to tackle the childcare–conference conundrum RM Calisi, a Working Group of Mothers in Science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 201803153

Oxytocin administration during early pair formation delays communal nursing in female house mice N Harrison, PC Lopes, B König. Animal Behaviour 123, 61-68

Why are behavioral and immune traits linked? PC Lopes Hormones and behavior 88, 52-59

Infection-induced behavioural changes reduce connectivity and the potential for disease spread in wild mice contact networks PC Lopes, P Block, B König. Scientific reports 6

Choosing a healthy mate: sexually attractive traits as reliable indicators of current disease status in house mice PC Lopes, B König. Animal Behaviour 111, 119-126

Oxytocin and social preference in female house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) N Harrison, PC Lopes, B König. Ethology 122 (7), 571-581

LPS and neuroinflammation: a matter of timing PC Lopes. Inflammopharmacology 24 (5), 291-293

A system for automatic recording of social behavior in a free-living wild house mouse population B König, AK Lindholm, PC Lopes, A Dobay, S Steinert, FJU Buschmann. Animal Biotelemetry 3 (1), 39

A novel symbiotic relationship between sociable weaver birds (Philetairus socius) and a new cheliferid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae) in southern Africa MS Harvey, PC Lopes, GR Goldsmith, A Halajian, MJ Hillyer, JA Huey. Invertebrate systematics 29 (5), 444-456

When is it socially acceptable to feel sick? PC Lopes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281 (1788), 20140218

Increased activity correlates with reduced ability to mount immune defenses to endotoxin in zebra finches. Lopes PC, Springthorpe D, Bentley GE. 2014. Journal of Experimental Zoology 321A:422–431.