B Wound healing in epithelia with clonally expressed cytoplasmic GFP (magenta) under the actin5c-Gal4 driver in control larvae (act>GFP) or larvae expressing RNAi constructs specific for Atg1 or Atg5. Laser ablated cells are marked with white asterisks. To visualize cell borders DE-cad-RFP (green) was expressed in all tested genotypes. By the end of wound closure, GFP from the clonal cells has spread to all cells around the wound in the control, but not if autophagy is suppressed, regardless of the number of cells initially expressing GFP. 