Fig. 7. Abundant apoptotic cell death occurs in egg¹⁴⁷³ germaria. Ovaries were labeled with antibodies to cleaved Caspase-3, a marker of apoptotic cell death, and Vasa. Left panels, cleaved Caspase-3 alone; right panels, merged images of cleaved Caspase-3 (green) and Vasa (red). (A) Wild-type germarium. No apoptotic cells are present in this example, and were only rarely seen in our sample. (B) egg¹⁴⁷³ germarium. Several apoptotic somatic cells are present in this example (arrows). See text for a full description. WT, wild type.