About the Authors

Yoku Kato

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Vitrolife KK, Shibakōen, Minato-ku, Japan

‡ These authors are co-first authors as they equally contributed to this work.

Affiliation Département des sciences animales, Centre de recherche en reproduction, développement et santé intergénérationnelle, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Satheesh Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Veterinary Biochemistry, Madras Veterinary College, Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Madras, India

‡ These authors are co-first authors as they equally contributed to this work.

Affiliation Département des sciences animales, Centre de recherche en reproduction, développement et santé intergénérationnelle, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Christian Lessard

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Département des sciences animales, Centre de recherche en reproduction, développement et santé intergénérationnelle, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Janice L. Bailey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

janice.bailey@frq.gouv.qc.ca

Current address: Fonds de recherche du Québec en Nature et technologies, Québec, Canada

Affiliation Département des sciences animales, Centre de recherche en reproduction, développement et santé intergénérationnelle, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.