About the Authors

Kentaro Nagaoka

nagaokak@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Haolin Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Gen Watanabe

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyoshi Taya

Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Physiology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KN GW KT. Performed the experiments: KN HZ. Analyzed the data: KN HZ GW KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN. Wrote the paper: KN.