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Nature Cell Biology 1, E123–E124 (1 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/12953

The Third Horseman takes wing

Kristin White

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.