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Cover Illustration: A late-stage-16 short-tailed fruit bat embryo. This specimen was collected from a wild population of bats on the West Indian island of Trinidad. (Image courtesy of Richard Behringer and Chris Cretekos.) For more information on field collection of bat embryos, see The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat Carollia perspicillata: A Model for Studies in Reproduction and Development (doi:10.1101/pdb.emo118).