About the Authors
- Matteo M. Pusceddu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo M. Pusceddu, Sahar El Aidy
Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Sahar El Aidy
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Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo M. Pusceddu, Sahar El Aidy
Affiliation APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Fiona Crispie
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Affiliation Teagasc, Moorepark, Cork, Ireland
- Orla O’Sullivan
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Affiliation Teagasc, Moorepark, Cork, Ireland
- Paul Cotter
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Affiliations APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Teagasc, Moorepark, Cork, Ireland
- Catherine Stanton
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Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Teagasc, Moorepark, Cork, Ireland
- Philip Kelly
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Affiliation Teagasc, Moorepark, Cork, Ireland
- John F. Cryan
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Affiliations APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Timothy G. Dinan
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* E-mail: t.dinan@ucc.ie
Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. The APC has conducted research funded by Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Proctor and Gamble, Mead Johnson, Suntory and Cremo. TGD also has grant support from the Health Research Board Ireland (HRA_POR/2011/23 HRA_POR/2012/32, and HRA-POR-2014-647) and European FP7 and has been an invited speaker at meetings organised by Servier, Lundbeck, Janssen, Astra-Zeneca. JFC has received grant support from the Health Research Board of Ireland (Grant number HRA_POR/2012/32), Science Foundation Ireland (Investigator Award Grant No. 12/IA/1537), European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (Grant number FP7/2007-2013 under Grant Agreement no. 278948 (TACTICS-Translational Adolescent and Childhood Therapeutic Interventions in Compulsive Syndrome)). JFC has been an invited speaker at meetings organised by Mead Johnson and Yakult. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MMP JFC TGD. Performed the experiments: MMP FC OO. Analyzed the data: MMP SE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC CS PK JFC TGD. Wrote the paper: MMP SE. Commented on the written manuscript: JFC TGD.