About the Authors

Athanasios Metaxakis

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Healthy Ageing and Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Linda Partridge

Partridge@age.mpg.de

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany, Institute of Healthy Ageing and Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM LP. Performed the experiments: AM. Analyzed the data: AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM LP. Wrote the paper: AM LP.