mortality/aging
• animals die at birth
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skeleton
• increased rib development leads to substantial rib cage formation relative to Myf5 null mice
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• increased bone formation in distal and proximal ribs is observed in E18.5 animals
• some ribs are thicker than wild-type, Myf5tm1Jae, or Myf5tm3(cre)Sor homozygous embryos
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• amount of rib formation is bilaterally asymmetric; ribs 1,4, and 11-13 show frequent abnormalities
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• supernumerary rib structures that are either floating or linked to other ribs in anterior to posterior direction are observed
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• increased bone formation is observed in embryos at E18.5
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• only observed in one animal
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• animals show increased bone formation compared to other knockin animals
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muscle
• at E9 and E10 myotome formation is abnormal with no expression of myogenin transcripts or myosin heavy chain protein detected
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