c-Fos 突变小鼠与 Monodelphis 破骨细胞抑制实验表明，阻断软骨吸收可使麦氏软骨保留或骨化并维持颌—耳连接，但这些现生扰动不能直接揭示任何化石中的机制。
claim:event:meckel-cartilage-clast-experimentMeckel's cartilage breakdown offers clues to mammalian middle ear evolution
Anthwal, N.; Urban, D.J.; Luo, Z.-X.; Sears, K.E.; Tucker, A.S.
年份2017
来源角色primary-study
DOI / ID10.1038/s41559-017-0093
适用范围
形态 · event-mechanism · methods
The experimental series compares c-Fos mutant mice with clast-cell inhibition in Monodelphis domestica; it tests cartilage-remodelling mechanisms rather than fossil ancestry.