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Cover: Ventral view of a late stage Daphnia magna embryo. First legs (orange) lack prominent comb-like structures in the ventral branches found in other thoracic legs (purple, blue and green). This difference correlates with the lack of Distal-less and concomitant expression of Antennapedia in this position. Daphnia Antennapedia posesses limb-surpressing activity not found in Drosophila Antennapedia. For further details, see article by Y. Shiga, R. Yasumoto, H. Yamagata and S. Hayashi in this issue, pp. 3555-3561.