About the Authors

Keisuke Watanabe

watak@med.niigata-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, Division of Gross Anatomy and Morphogenesis, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Norihisa Bizen

Affiliation Division of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Noboru Sato

Affiliation Division of Gross Anatomy and Morphogenesis, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Hirohide Takebayashi

Affiliation Division of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KW HT. Formal analysis: KW NB. Funding acquisition: KW HT. Investigation: KW. Methodology: KW HT. Project administration: KW. Resources: KW NS HT. Validation: KW. Visualization: KW NS HT. Writing – original draft: KW. Writing – review & editing: KW NS HT.