Germ cells in the teleost fish medaka have an inherent feminizing effect

• Toshiya Nishimura,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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• Kazuki Yamada,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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• Chika Fujimori,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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• Mariko Kikuchi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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• Toshihiro Kawasaki,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Kellee R. Siegfried,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Noriyoshi Sakai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Minoru Tanaka

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mtanaka@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9100-1487

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