About the Authors

Tadashi Nomura

Current address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Center for Translational and Advanced Animal Research (CTTAR), Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Masanori Takahashi

Affiliation Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Center for Translational and Advanced Animal Research (CTTAR), Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Yoshinobu Hara

Affiliations Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Center for Translational and Advanced Animal Research (CTTAR), Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Noriko Osumi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: osumi@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Center for Translational and Advanced Animal Research (CTTAR), Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN. Performed the experiments: TN. Analyzed the data: TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT YH. Wrote the paper: NO TN.