Abe, Hideaki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-8970
Aoya, Daiki
Takeuchi, Hiro-aki
Inoue-Murayama, Miho
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kyoto University
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Article History
Received: 10 November 2016
Accepted: 11 July 2017
First Online: 21 July 2017
Ethics approval
: Sample collection from BB chickens was carried out at Shizuoka University under the approval of the ethics committee (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Shizuoka University approval numbers: 21–5, 22–5, and 23–6). All procedures regarding HJ chickens were approved by the Kyoto University Animal Experimental Committee (approval number: WRC-2015-004A) with permission from the Akita Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station (Animal Experimentation Committee: approval number: 2015–10).
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