About the Authors

Naoki Nishishita

Affiliations Riken Center for Developmental Biology, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan

Masayuki Shikamura

Affiliation Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan

Chiemi Takenaka

Affiliations Riken Center for Developmental Biology, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan

Nozomi Takada

Affiliation Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan

Noemi Fusak

Affiliations DNAVEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Ibaragi, Japan, Japanese Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

Shin Kawamata

kawamata@fbri.org

Affiliations Riken Center for Developmental Biology, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Noemi Fusaki is employed by a commercial company, DNAVEC Corporation. DNAVEC will provide a temperature sensitive new Sendi virus vector TS7 upon request. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NN SK. Performed the experiments: NN MS CT NT. Analyzed the data: NN MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NF. Wrote the paper: NN.