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Retracted: Pan-neuronal knockdown of Ras GTPase-activating protein 1 alters Drosophila activity and sleep behavior
Francisco Alejandro Lagunas-Rangel1
1Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Abstract:
The above article, published online on 18 January 2023 in Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/arch.22001), has been retracted by agreement between the author, the journal Editor in Chief, Yonggyun Kim and Wiley Periodicals, LLC. The retraction has been agreed due to errors identified in the research methodology. The author confirms that repeating the research with corrected methodology has yielded significantly different results; therefore, the results and conclusions of the published article must be considered invalid.

