About the Authors
- Hideaki Abe
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Affiliations Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Kenji Nagao
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Affiliation Animal Husbandry Research Division, Aichi Agricultural Research Center, Aichi, Japan
- Miho Inoue-Murayama
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* E-mail: mmurayama@wrc.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HA MI-M. Performed the experiments: HA KN. Analyzed the data: HA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN. Wrote the paper: HA. Conceived and designed molecular experiments: HA. Co-conceived all behavioral and molecular experiments: MI-M. Managed the domestic chicks used in behavioral experiments: KN. Performed molecular experiments: HA. Carried out behavioral experiments and qPCR: KN. Gave final approval of the version to be published: MI-M. Read and approved the final manuscript: MI-M KN HA.