About the Authors

Haruka Nagasaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Haruka Nagasaki, Tokio Katsumata

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Tokio Katsumata

Contributed equally to this work with: Haruka Nagasaki, Tokio Katsumata

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hisashi Oishi

hoishi@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (HO); satoruta@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (ST)

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Life Science Center, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Pei-Han Tai

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yukari Sekiguchi

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Ryusuke Koshida

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yunshin Jung

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Takashi Kudo

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Satoru Takahashi

hoishi@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (HO); satoruta@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (ST)

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Life Science Center, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST HO. Performed the experiments: T. Katsumata HO PT YS YJ HN. Analyzed the data: T. Katsumata HO RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HO ST T. Kudo. Wrote the paper: HO ST.