different subsets of hemocytes in the adult fly

Orthologs

If looking for orthologs (human to flies to zebrafish, or vice versa), Perrimon launched a new site:

http://www.flyrnai.org/cgi-bin/DRSC_orthologs.pl

You input your favorit gene (the CG name for flies, for instance) and you get back the human (or zebrafish) ortholog.
Works really nice.

a nice review on phagocytosis in drosophila by ramet

New RFP balancers

New balancers out. Tubby-RFP on all three chromosomes... A little bit confusing with Tubby on the 2nd or X, but what can you do?

Who will order these?

screen on dorsal closure

paper out on a screen on dorsal closure from Jankovics.

Mainly describes pebble.

role of annexin in membrane repair regulated by calcium

Dev Cell 10th Anniversary Issue

This weeks issue of Dev Cell is a 10th Anniversary Issue with reviews from Wieschaus and Perrimon.