About the Authors

Taiki Kawagoshi

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Yoshinobu Uno

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Chizuko Nishida

Affiliation Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yoichi Matsuda

yoimatsu@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Avian Bioscience Research Center, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK YM. Performed the experiments: TK YU CN. Analyzed the data: TK YU CN YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK CN. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TK YM.