Table 3. Reduction of phosphocholine synthesis via pmt RNAi does not reduce LET-23 activity in vulval development or uv1 cell specification.

	No. of Vulval Invaginations L4 Stage						No. of GFP-Positive uv1 Cells
	1	2	3	4	n	Average	4	5	6	n	Average
Wild typea	50	0	0	0	50	1.00	30	0	0	30	4.00
let-23(sa62gf)b	2	21	10	1	34	2.29	49	8	1	58	4.17
let-23(sa62gf); pmt-1 RNAi	0	13	37	8	58	2.91*	32	8	0	40	4.20
let-23(sa62gf); pmt-2 RNAi	0	8	10	0	18	2.56	36	11	2	49	4.31

^*P < 0.05, calculated using Student’s t-test.

^aStrain BL5715.

^bStrain HV760.