Evidence for a functional role of Start, a long noncoding RNA, in mouse spermatocytes

• Kai Otsuka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, California United States of America

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• Hong Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Shin Matsubara,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7794-534X

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• Akira Shiraishi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto, Japan

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• Misuzu Kurihara,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RNA Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Honoo Satake,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-3624

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• Atsushi P. Kimura

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akimura@sci.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-1230

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