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Alysia D. Vrailas‐Mortimer, School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Science Laboratory Building, Normal, IL 61790, USA. Email: admorti@ilstu.edu
S. Ryan, M. Almassey, A. Burch, G. Ngo, J. Martin, D. Myers, D. Compton, S. Archie, M. Cross, L. Naeger, A. Salzman, A. Virola‐Iarussi, N. Mortimer, and A. Vrailas‐Mortimer performed experiments. S. Ryan, N. Mortimer, S. Barbee, S. Sanyal, and A. Vrailas‐Mortimer made intellectual contributions to experimental design and data interpretation. All authors were involved in reading and editing the manuscript.
We would also like to acknowledge the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (NIH P40OD018537), the Vienna Drosophila Resource Center, and Kyoto Stock Center for providing fly stocks used in this study. A. Vrailas‐Mortimer was funded by start‐up funds from the University of Denver, a Knoebel Center for the Study of Aging pilot grant, start‐up funds from Illinois State University and was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R15AR070505. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. S. Sanyal was funded by start‐up funds from Emory University. S. Ryan was supported by a Knoebel Center for the Study of Aging pilot grant to A. Vrailas‐Mortimer and S. Barbee, N. Mortimer was funded by start‐up funds from Illinois State University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
The authors have no conflicts of interest.