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Cover Photograph: Top left: Preferential interaction between Notch receptors and Notch Ligands. See Hozumi, pp 49–58. Top middle: Schematic diagram of the Drosophila Notch receptor and mutations found in the epidermal growth factor‐like repeats. See Yamamoto, pp 15–34. Top right: New neurons formed in the adult mouse hippocampal dentate gyrus. See Sueda & Kageyama, pp 59–66. Middle left: Notch dependent transcription measured live in Drosophila embryos. See Falo‐Sanjuan and Bray, pp 4–14. Middle right: Drosophila almondex mutant shows maternal neurogenic phenotype, See Das et al., pp 80–93. Bottom left: Overview of the Notch signaling pathway. See Urata & Takeuchi, pp 35–48. Bottom right: Tissue structure of the respiratory system. See Kiyokawa & Morimoto., pp 67–79.