About the Authors
- Toshihiro Sakurai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Toshihiro Sakurai, So Nakagawa, Min-Su Kim
Current address: Laboratory of Radiophysiology, Department of Life Science, Yokohama College of Pharmacy, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- So Nakagawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Toshihiro Sakurai, So Nakagawa, Min-Su Kim
Affiliation Department of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
- Min-Su Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Toshihiro Sakurai, So Nakagawa, Min-Su Kim
Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Hanako Bai
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Rulan Bai
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Junyou Li
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Affiliation Animal Resource Center, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Kwan-Sik Min
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Affiliation Animal Biotechnology, Hankyong National University, Kyonggi-do, Korea
- Atsushi Ideta
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Affiliation Zen-Noh ET Center, Hokkaido, Japan
- Yoshito Aoyagi
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Affiliation Zen-Noh ET Center, Hokkaido, Japan
- Kazuhiko Imakawa
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* E-mail: akaz@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors wish to declare the affiliation of a commercial company Zen-noh ET Center has nothing to do with sharing data or materials in this publication. Thus, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TS M-SK K-SM YA KI. Performed the experiments: TS M-SK HB RB J-YL AI. Analyzed the data: TS SN K-SM HB J-YL YA KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN AI YA KI. Wrote the paper: SN M-SK RB KI.