About the Authors

Shunsuke Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Ryuichi Ono

Affiliation Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Takanori Narita

Affiliation Genome Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Andrew J Pask

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Geoffrey Shaw

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Changshan Wang

Affiliation Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Kohda

Affiliation Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Amber E Alsop

Affiliation Research School of Biological Sciences, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Affiliation Research School of Biological Sciences, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Yuji Kohara

Affiliation Genome Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Fumitoshi Ishino

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fishino.epgn@mri.tmd.ac.jp (FI); m.renfree@zoology.unimelb.edu.au (MBR); tkanekoi@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (TKI)

Affiliation Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Marilyn B Renfree

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fishino.epgn@mri.tmd.ac.jp (FI); m.renfree@zoology.unimelb.edu.au (MBR); tkanekoi@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (TKI)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fishino.epgn@mri.tmd.ac.jp (FI); m.renfree@zoology.unimelb.edu.au (MBR); tkanekoi@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp (TKI)

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, Tokai University, Bohseidai, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SS, RO, TK, FI, and TKI conceived and designed the experiments. SS performed the experiments. SS, TN, and CW analyzed the data. TN, AJP, GS, AEA, JAMG, YK, and MBR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SS, AJP, GS, FI, and MBR wrote the paper.