Prenatal exposure to the probiotic Lactococcus lactis decreases anxiety-like behavior and modulates cortical cytoarchitecture in a sex specific manner.

• Natalia Surzenko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Surzenko, Eneda Pjetri

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: surzenko@email.unc.edu (NS); esiobhanmitchell@gmail.com (ESM)

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kannapolis, NC, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Eneda Pjetri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Surzenko, Eneda Pjetri

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kannapolis, NC, United States of America

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• Carolyn A. Munson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kannapolis, NC, United States of America

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• Walter B. Friday,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kannapolis, NC, United States of America

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• Jonas Hauser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7988-5291

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• Ellen Siobhan Mitchell

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: surzenko@email.unc.edu (NS); esiobhanmitchell@gmail.com (ESM)

  Affiliation Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland

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