About the Authors
- Takashi Chaen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Chaen, Toshihiro Konno
Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Toshihiro Konno
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Chaen, Toshihiro Konno
* E-mail: konnot@gmail.com
Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Mahiro Egashira
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Rulan Bai
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Nana Nomura
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Shintaro Nomura
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Affiliation Department of Animal Bioscience, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Nagahama, Shiga, Japan
- Yasushi Hirota
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Toshihiro Sakurai
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Kazuhiko Imakawa
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Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TK TC. Performed the experiments: TC TK ME RB NN SN YH TS. Analyzed the data: TC TK ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI. Wrote the paper: TK TC.