Authors do not specify the RNAi delivery method; bacterial feeding used for curation. Exact sequence used for RNAi not stated by authors, Ahringer laboratory clone used for curation.
Cells do not undergo the form of programmed cell death characterized by rounding-up of the cell, retraction of pseudopodes, reduction of cellular volume (pyknosis), chromatin condensation, nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis), classically little or no ultrastructural modifications of cytoplasmic organelles, plasma membrane blebbing (but maintenance of its integrity until the final stages of the process) and engulfment by resident phagocytes.