About the Authors

Sayaka Wakayama

Affiliation Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

Yumi Kawahara

Affiliation Division of Bio-Environment Adaptation Sciences, Graduate School of Health Sciences, and Space Bio-Laboratories, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Chong Li

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan, Department of Bioscience, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

Kazuo Yamagata

Affiliation Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

Louis Yuge

Affiliation Division of Bio-Environment Adaptation Sciences, Graduate School of Health Sciences, and Space Bio-Laboratories, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Teruhiko Wakayama

teru@cdb.riken.jp

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, RIKEN, Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan, Department of Bioscience, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW LY TW. Performed the experiments: SW YK CL KY TW. Analyzed the data: YK LY TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW. Wrote the paper: LY TW.