About the Authors

Shunji Hattori

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

shunhatt.ten@icloud.com

Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Tomomi Kiriyama-Tanaka

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Masashi Kusubata

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Yuki Taga

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Testuya Ebihara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Yuki Kumazawa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan

Katsuyuki Imai

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Mitsutaka Miura

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Yoshihiro Mezaki

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Alexei Tikhonov

Roles Resources

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Haruki Senoo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.