About the Authors

Takayoshi Ubuka

ubukat@berkeley.edu

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Kevin Morgan

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Centre for Reproductive Biology, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Adam J. Pawson

Affiliation Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Centre for Reproductive Biology, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tomohiro Osugi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Vishwajit S. Chowdhury

Affiliation Department of Biology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Minakata

Affiliation Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Osaka, Japan

Kazuyoshi Tsutsui

Affiliation Department of Biology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Robert P. Millar

Affiliations Medical Research Council Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, Centre for Reproductive Biology, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

George E. Bentley

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TU KT RPM GB. Performed the experiments: TU KM AP TO VSC HM. Analyzed the data: TU KM AP TO VSC HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TU KM AP TO VSC HM. Wrote the paper: TU KT RPM GB.