Short communicationDifferential decline in behavioral performance of Drosophila melanogaster with age
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Acknowledgments
We thank Seymour Benzer, in whose laboratory this worked was initiated, Jonathan Murray, John Silverlake, Cindy Shih and Antha Mack for technical help, Marc Tatar and Rafael Romero for helpful discussions. This work was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation Research and a postdoctoral research grant from the American Federation for Aging Research (2002 Glenn/AFAR) to A.F.S.
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