About the Authors

Nozomi Iwanami

Contributed equally to this work with: Nozomi Iwanami, Yuri Nakamura, Takunori Satoh

Affiliation Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Yuri Nakamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Nozomi Iwanami, Yuri Nakamura, Takunori Satoh

Affiliation Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Takunori Satoh

Contributed equally to this work with: Nozomi Iwanami, Yuri Nakamura, Takunori Satoh

Affiliation Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Ziguang Liu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Akiko K. Satoh

aksatoh@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKS TS. Performed the experiments: NI YN TS ZL AKS. Analyzed the data: YN TS AKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NI YN TS ZL AKS. Wrote the paper: TS AKS.