About the Authors

Noritaka Hara

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Keiichi Namba

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tohru Minamino

tohru@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH KN TM. Performed the experiments: NH TM. Analyzed the data: NH TM. Wrote the paper: NH KN TM.