About the Authors

Yuki Kobayashi

suzuki.yukikb@nihon-u.ac.jp (YK); yossuzuk@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (YS)

Affiliation Nihon University Veterinary Research Center, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Masayuki Horie

Affiliations Transboundary Animal Diseases Research Center, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, United Graduate School of Veterinary Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Ayumi Nakano

Affiliation Nihon University Veterinary Research Center, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Koichi Murata

Affiliation Department of Animal Resource Science, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon Universitym, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Takuya Itou

Affiliation Nihon University Veterinary Research Center, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiyuki Suzuki

suzuki.yukikb@nihon-u.ac.jp (YK); yossuzuk@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (YS)

Affiliation Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK MH YS. Performed the experiments: YK AN TI KM. Analyzed the data: YK YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS KM. Wrote the paper: YK MH KM TI YS.