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The identification of a Drosophila homologue of the nematode cell-death protein CED-4 indicates a role for the apoptosome — a complex consisting of CED-4, CED-3 and CED-9 — in developmental cell deaths in Drosophila.

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Figure 1: A model for apoptosis in Drosophila.

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  1. Kristin White is at the Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, 02129, Massachusetts, USA

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White, K. The Third Horseman takes wing. Nat Cell Biol 1, E123–E124 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/12953

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