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Cover Photograph: Top left: Arabidopsis thaliana in the field. (See Bamba et al. pp. 12–24). Top center: Bloomed Monophyllaea glabra (See Kinoshita and Tsukaya pp. 25–33). Top right: Phalloidin/Hoechst staining of the unicellular holozoan Capsaspora (See Denbo et al. pp. 34–42). Middle left: A leech on the top of the head of a toad. The photo was taken by Dr. Lai (See Kuo and Lai pp. 43–57). Middle center: Asian multicolored ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (See Ando and Niimi pp. 73–84). Middle right: Castes in a termite colony ( Macrotermes sp.) (See Miura pp. 85–96). Bottom left: Fanning threespine sticklebacks. The photo was taken by Dr. Y. Hata (See Kitano et al. pp. 104–113). Middle center: Expression of Tbx5 in E6 chick heart. Tbx5 is restricted to the left ventricle and the left side of ventricular septum (See Katano et al. pp. 114–123). Bottom right: Expression of Hgf in a catshark Scyliorhinus canicula embryo (See Okamoto et al. pp. 97–103).