Toxoplasma infection in male mice alters dopamine-sensitive behaviors and host gene expression patterns associated with neuropsychiatric disease

• Graham L. Cromar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Graham L. Cromar, Jonathan R. Epp

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Jonathan R. Epp ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Graham L. Cromar, Jonathan R. Epp

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

  Current address: Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  Affiliation Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Ana Popovic,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Yusing Gu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Violet Ha,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Brandon J. Walters,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• James St. Pierre,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Xuejian Xiong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• John G. Howland,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

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• Sheena A. Josselyn,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Paul W. Frankland ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paul.frankland@utoronto.ca (PF); john.parkinson@utoronto.ca (JP)

  Affiliations Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• John Parkinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paul.frankland@utoronto.ca (PF); john.parkinson@utoronto.ca (JP)

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  Affiliations Program in Neurosciences & Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-1189

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