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Driven to cannibalism: A hormonal trigger for phagocytosis

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In this issue, Ghosh et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202411073) reveal that a hormonal cue induces ovarian stretch follicle cells to cannibalize adjacent nurse cells—a process necessary to remodel egg chambers into viable eggs.

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