please tell me the differences

I am doing some reseach about the fuction of a gene in C. elegans. Now I am confused about the meaning of two nouns while reading papers: cell autonomously and cell non-autonomously. Who can tell me the difference between them? please describe in detail as soon as possible. Thanks

This topic has been addressed in a previous thread: http://forums.wormbase.org/index.php?topic=1330.msg2710#msg2710.

Thank you for informing me