pat-2 acts in muscle cells to mediate apoptotic cell engulfment.

aThe number of cell corpses in each genotype was scored at the indicated embryonic stage.bHomozygous progeny of unc-79(e1068) pat-2(st567); Ex[Ppat-2pat-2::gfp] mothers.cHomozygous progeny of unc-79(e1068) pat-2(st567); Ex[Ppat-2pat-2::mcherry] mothers.dHomozygous progeny of unc-79(e1068) pat-2(st567)/dpy-17(e164) heterozygous mothers.eThe number of cell corpses was scored in the F1 transgenic progeny of the injected worms, n = 10 at each stage. Transgenic embryos were generated and heat-shocked as described in Materials and Methods. Mutants carrying the transgene were compared to the wild-type (*pp#p##ppp20 (unless noted above) embryos at each stage.