About the Authors

Yukari Terashita

yterashita@cdb.riken.jp(YT); twakayama@yamanashi.ac.jp (TW)

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Kazuo Yamagata

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, Center for genetic analysis of biological responses, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

Mikiko Tokoro

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, Asada Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Asada Ladies Clinic, Kasugai, Japan

Fumiaki Itoi

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, Asada Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Asada Ladies Clinic, Kasugai, Japan

Sayaka Wakayama

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan

Chong Li

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Eimei Sato

Affiliations Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Managing director, National Livestock Breeding Center, Nishishirakawa-gun, Japan

Kentaro Tanemura

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Teruhiko Wakayama

yterashita@cdb.riken.jp(YT); twakayama@yamanashi.ac.jp (TW)

Affiliations Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YT KY TW. Performed the experiments: YT MT FI. Analyzed the data: YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT SW CL. Wrote the manuscript: YT TW. Supported doing experiments and writing the manuscript: ES KT.