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Front cover: Kiyomizu‐dera temple in Kyoto is famous for its 12‐meter high Butai (‘stage’). In Edo era, there was a popular superstition that if one survived a jump from theButai, one's wish would come true. In this drawing, one woman holding an umbrella as a parachute has jumped from the Butai over the fully blossomed cherry trees. In the Drosophila wing imaginal discs drawn on her kimono, the spatial expression patterns of genes involved in pattern formation can be discerned. May the Drosophila wing imaginal discs differentiate into wings before she crashes to the ground. Drosophila adults have gathered from nowhere as if they escorted her in a cherry blossom snowstorm. Designed by TRAIS Co., Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).