Plant type and seed morphology of WT and srs1 mutants. The SRS1/DEP2 gene encodes a novel protein without known functional domains. The SRS1/DEP2 gene regulates cell length and cell number in the lemma. For further details, see Abe et al. in this issue.

DAPI staining (blue) and immunostaining with the antibody against histone methylation (H3K27me1, green) of the onion metaphase chromosome. For further details, see Suzuki et al. in this issue.

Whole-mount in situ hybridization displaying the expression of AmphiFABP gene in an amphioxus embryo, a dorsal view of the early neurula. For further details, see Liu et al. in this issue.

Eggs of Drosophila melanogaster with no sperm (upper), with a sperm but not initiating embryogenesis (middle), and with a sperm surrounded by blastdermal cells on the surface. Eggs were stained with DAPI (magenta) and DROP 1.1 (green) that is an antibody labeling sperm. For further details, see Ohsako and Yamamoto in this issue.

A spike of an Aegilops tauschii accession (KU-2627) with a large deletion in the Vrn-Dt1 first intron.  The large deletion was associated with the lack of vernalization requirement for flowering.  For further details, see Takumi et al. in this issue.

Expression analysis of Mterfd2 during mouse development by in situ hybridization.  For further details, see Xu et al. in this issue

The striped silversides, Atherinomorus endrachtensis, inhabiting marine lakes, which are "Islands" for marine species. The populations in marine lakes are genetically differentiated from the lagoon populations. For further details, see Gotoh et al. in this issue.