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Volume 19 Number 20 16 October 2000

Cover. 'An Abyssinian Roller, The Gambia', an original watercolour by Hans J.Geuze, drawn during a bird watching trip to Africa in 1999. The artist is a Senior Research Professor in Cell Biology at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands. His research is concerned with intracellular protein transport and sorting by using cryo-immunogold electron microscopy.

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