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On the cover is an image of a fly using its rear leg to clean itself during a grooming reflex. Fruit flies have many innate behaviors that allow neuroscientists to investigate how the hard-wired neural circuits underlying these behaviors self-assemble. Image from the protocol by Kays et al. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2013.157. Cover design by Jamel Wooten.