New insights into the role of microheterogeneity of ZP3 during structural maturation of the avian equivalent of mammalian zona pellucida

• Hiroki Okumura ,

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

  * E-mail: hokumura@meijo-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6222-9634

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• Ayaka Mizuno,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

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• Eri Iwamoto,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

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• Rio Sakuma,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

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• Shunsuke Nishio,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Ken-ichi Nishijima,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Avian Bioscience Research Center, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, Nagoya, Japan

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• Tsukasa Matsuda,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan

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• Minoru Ujita

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

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