About the Authors

Hideo Matsumura

hideoma@shinshu-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Japan, Gene Research Center, Shinshu University, Ueda, Japan

Kentaro Yoshida

Affiliation Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Japan

Shujun Luo

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Eiji Kimura

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Takahiro Fujibe

Affiliation Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Japan

Zayed Albertyn

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

Roberto A. Barrero

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

Detlev H. Krüger

Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, University Hospital Charite, Berlin, Germany

Günter Kahl

Affiliation Molecular BioSciences, Biocentre, University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

Gary P. Schroth

Affiliation Illumina, Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Ryohei Terauchi

Affiliation Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Japan

Competing Interests

Shujun Luo and Gary P. Schroth are employees of Illumina Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM DHK GK GPS RT. Performed the experiments: HM KY SL EK TF. Analyzed the data: HM KY ZA RAB RT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL EK TF. Wrote the paper: HM DHK GK GPS RT.