Hiroshi Hori,¹ Nori Satoh,² Toru Shimada,³ Takaaki Daimon,³ Shunsuke Funaguma,³ Susumu Katsuma,³ Hiroaki Abe,⁴ Kazuei Mita, Nori Satoh,⁵ Yutaka Satou,⁵ Takeshi Kawashima,⁵ Eiichi Shoguchi,⁵ Kiyoshi Naruse,⁶ Yoichiro Nakatani,⁷ Wei Qu,⁷ Masahiro Kasahara,⁷ Shin Sasaki,⁷ Tomoyuki Yamada,⁷ Ahsan Budrul,⁷ Koichiro Doi,⁷ Yukinobu Nagayasu,⁷ Shin-ichi Hashimoto,⁸ Takanori Narita,⁹ Yoko Kuroki,¹⁰ Atsushi Toyoda,¹⁰ Tomoko Jindo,⁶ Daisuke Kobayashi,⁶ Tadasu Shin-I,⁹ Yusuke Takehana,¹¹ Keita Tanaka,¹¹ Mitsuru Sakaizumi,¹¹ Yuji Kohara,⁹ Asao Fujiyama,¹² Shin-ichi Morishita,⁷ Hiroyuki Takeda,⁶ Takashi Sasaki,¹³ Atsushi Shimizu,¹³ Sabine Kazuko Ishikawa,¹³ Shuichiro Imai,^13,14 Yuji Murayama,¹³ Heinz Himmelbauer,¹⁵ Hiroshi Mitani,¹⁶ Makoto Furutani-Seiki,¹⁷ Hisato Kondoh,¹⁷ Indrajit Nanda,¹⁸ Michael Schmid,¹⁸ Manfred Schartl,¹⁸ Masaru Nonaka,¹⁹ Hiroyuki Takeda,¹⁹ Hiroshi Hori,¹⁴ Akihiro Shima,¹⁶ Nobuyoshi Shimizu,¹³ Toshihiko Shiroishi<sup>20

1</sup>Division of Biological Science, Nagoya University
²Deptartment of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
³Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo
⁴Department of Biological Production, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
⁵Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
⁶Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
⁷Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Science, University of Tokyo
⁸Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
⁹Center of Genetic Resource and Information, National Institute of Genetics
¹⁰Sequence Technology Team, Genome Core Technology Facilities, RIKEN Genomic Science Center
¹¹Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University
¹²Biosciences Information, Research Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
¹³Department of Molecular Biology, Keio University School of Medicine
¹⁴Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
¹⁵Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
¹⁶Developmental Mutants Group, Kondoh Differentiation Signaling Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
¹⁷Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
¹⁸Department of Physiological Chemistry I, University of Wurzburg, Germany
¹⁹Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
²⁰Mammalian Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics