Discordant growth of nasal cartilage and bone contributes to phenotypic variability of the skull in a mouse model

Author:

Book Shae A.1,Moore Alyssa C.2,Tourigny Madeline S. G.2,Barr Kevin2,Willmore Katherine E.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Medicine University of Limerick Limerick Ireland

2. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry The University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada

Abstract

AbstractBackgroundWe previously determined a nonlinear relationship between connexin 43 (Cx43) function and craniofacial phenotypic variation in the mutant mouse model G60S/+, and that this variation was driven by nasal bone deviation. While nonlinearities in the genotype‐phenotype map appear to be common, few studies have looked at the developmental processes that underlie this nonlinearity. Here, we investigated the potential tissue‐level developmental determinants of the variation in nasal bone phenotype in G60S/+ mice through postnatal development.ResultsThe deviated nasal bone phenotype arises by postnatal day 21 and becomes more severe by 3 months in G60S/+ mice. Measures of nasal bone remodeling including the number of osteoclasts, mineralizing surface, mineral apposition rate, and bone formation rate are significantly greater in G60S/+ mice compared to wild‐type mice at 2 months, but these differences do not correspond with nasal bone deviation. The degree of nasal bone deviation does significantly and negatively correlate with the ratio between nasal bone and cartilaginous nasal septum length.ConclusionsOur findings indicate that the mean phenotypic changes observed between G60S/+ and wild‐type mice are due to reduced bone growth, but the increased phenotypic variation found within mutant mice is due to discordant growth between nasal cartilage and bone.

Funder

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Developmental Biology

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