<i>pat-2</i> 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 (*p<0.05 and **p<0.001) or to mutants without the transgene (#p<0.05 and ##p<0.001) at each stage. Wild-type carrying the transgene were compared to the wild-type (*p<0.05 and **p<0.001). All comparisons were performed using the unpaired t test. Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD) for >20 (unless noted above) embryos at each stage.