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Nature Cell Biology 1, E129–E130 (1 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/12961

The beauty of small flies

Christian F. Lehner

The first results of systematic screens for genes that control the size of cells, organs and organism in Drosophila emphasize the importance of translational control and signals transmitted through the fly homologue of the insulin/insulin-like-growth-factor receptor.