text_1: Acute ablation of Snail in the embryonic cortex affects the proliferation and number of embryonic cortical precursors.
text_2: Specifically, we show that asymmetric cell division in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is mediated by a pathway involving three genes, dnj-11 MIDA1, ces-2 HLF, and ces-1 Snail, that directly control the enzymatic machinery responsible for apoptosis.