LEC extrusion at the dorsal midline is independent of histoblasts.
Time-lapse movies showing dorsal views of an abdominal epidermal segment of a control pupa (left) and a pupa expressing the death-inducing gene reaper in histoblasts (right) at the indicated times APF. Adherens junctions are visualized by E-cadherin-GFP. Scale bars: 50 μm.