Cover image
Cover: Ex vivo activation of an unfertilised mature Drosophila melanogaster egg initiates a propagating increase in intracellular calcium. This calcium “wave” starts at the posterior of the egg and moves towards the anterior. Longitudinal-section views at ten second intervals after activation are displayed as Calcium Green-1/Texas Red Dextran ratio images. Increasing Calcium concentration is shown from blue-green-red-white. In this issue, York-Andersen et al. describe how a calcium wave co-ordinates key developmental events in Drosophila egg activation. Photo credit: Richard M. Parton and Clare L. Bromley. See the article by York-Andersen et al. (doi: 10.1242/bio.201411296).
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Future Leader Review – early neurodegeneration of Alzheimer’s disease
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First author interviews
Catch up on our latest first author interviews to go behind the scenes of our latest research, find out more about the authors and hear from early-career researchers themselves how they’re finding life at the bench.
Retinal degeneration in Drosophila
Thank you to Elisabeth Knust and her team for their confocal image of a longitudinal section of an adult Drosophila retina, which brightens the cover of our latest issue. Read the research behind the cover.