About the Authors

Shinichi Meguro

Contributed equally to this work with: Shinichi Meguro, Takahiro Hasumura

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

meguro.shinichi@kao.com

Affiliation Biological Science Research, Kao Corporation, Tochigi, Japan

Takahiro Hasumura

Contributed equally to this work with: Shinichi Meguro, Takahiro Hasumura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Human Health Care Product Research, Kao Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

T.H. and S.M. are employees of Kao Corporation, a chemical company headquartered in Japan (Tokyo, Japan). Kao Corporation owns the patent to the method to distinguish individual adult zebrafish in this study (applicant; Kao Corporation, name of inventor; Takahiro Hasumura, application number; WO2017/134812A1, status of application; granted). All these aspects do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.