In their new paper in Genetics, Brandon Weasner and Justin Kumar describe the contributions that the eye-antennal disc of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has made to the field of developmental biology. An image of a Drosophila eye-antennal disc (contributed by Alison Smith and Justin Kumar) was selected for the issue cover of Genetics.
Citation: Weasner, B.P. and Kumar, J.P. (2022) The early history of the eye-antennal disc of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 221(1) iyac04. doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyac041 (PMID:35460415)
Brandon Weasner is a research associate and Alison Smith is a graduate student. Both are in the lab of Justin Kumar, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington.
Another image from the Kumar lab was featured on the cover of Development earlier this year.
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