The microbiota promotes social behavior by modulating microglial remodeling of forebrain neurons

• Joseph J. Bruckner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-9440

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• Sarah J. Stednitz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Max Z. Grice,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Dana Zaidan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Michelle S. Massaquoi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Johannes Larsch,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department Genes-Circuits-Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany

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• Alexandra Tallafuss,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Karen Guillemin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, Humans and the Microbiome Program, CIFAR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Philip Washbourne ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pwash@uoregon.edu (PW); eisen@uoregon.edu (JSE)

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

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• Judith S. Eisen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pwash@uoregon.edu (PW); eisen@uoregon.edu (JSE)

  Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1229-1696

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