High fat diet alters gut microbiota but not spatial working memory in early middle-aged Sprague Dawley rats

• Nikita Girish Deshpande ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nikita Girish Deshpande, Juhi Saxena

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Neurosciences, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Juhi Saxena ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nikita Girish Deshpande, Juhi Saxena

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Neurosciences, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Tristan G. Pesaresi ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Neurosciences, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Casey Dylan Carrell ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Grayson Breneman Ashby ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Min-Ken Liao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Current address: Department of Biology, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Linnea Ruth Freeman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: linnea.freeman@furman.edu

  Current address: Department of Biology, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

  Affiliations Neurosciences, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5507-8903

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