Mannitol ingestion causes concentration-dependent, sex-biased mortality in adults of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

• Katherine Fiocca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine Fiocca, Meghan Barrett

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Meghan Barrett ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine Fiocca, Meghan Barrett

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Edward A. Waddell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Jennifer Viveiros,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Cheyenne McNair,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Sean O’Donnell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Biology Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Daniel R. Marenda

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dm562@drexel.edu

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Biology Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5388-8793

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