Shared Transcriptomic Signatures of Inflammaging Among Diverse Strains of Drosophila melanogaster.

Background: A prominent hallmark of aging is inflammaging-the increased expression of innate immune genes without identifiable infection. Model organisms with shorter lifespans, such as the fruit fly, provide an essential platform for probing the mechanisms of inflammaging. Multiple groups have reported that, like mammalian models, old flies have significantly higher levels of expression of anti-microbial peptide genes.