Editorial Board

Special Advisory Board: Hideo MOHRI (University of Tokyo, National Institute for Basic Biology)
Hiroshi NAGASHIMA (Meiji University)
Jerome F STRAUSS III (Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Pennsylvania)
Editor-in-Chief: Hiroshi HARAYAMA (Kobe University)
Co-Editor-in-Chief: Katsuhiko HAYASHI (Osaka University)
Kotaro HORIGUCHI (Kyorin University)
Masahito IKAWA (Osaka University)
Fuko MATSUDA (The University of Tokyo)
Hiromichi MATSUMOTO (Utsunomiya University)
Masashi NAGANO (Kitasato University)
Yayoi OBATA (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
Atsuo OGURA (RIKEN BioResource Research Center)
Norihiro SUGINO (Yamaguchi University)
Kumiko TAKEDA (Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, NARO)
Tomomi TANAKA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Past Editor-in-Chief: Michio TAKAHASHI (1991-1993)
Chikashi TACHI (1994-1996)
Yuji MORI (1997-1999)
Eimei SATO (2000-2002)
Masugi NISHIHARA (2003-2005)
Noboru MANABE (2006-2008)
Kei-ichiro MAEDA (2009-2011)
Hiroshi NAGASHIMA (2012-2014)
Atsuo OGURA (2015-2018)
Yayoi OBATA (2019-2022)
Editors
Hossam El-Sheikh ALI (Mansoura University, Egypt)
Ahmed BALBOULA (University of Missouri, USA)
Jean-Ju CHUNG (Yale University, USA)
Susana M CHUVA DE SOUSA LOPES (Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands)
Osamu DOCHI (Rakuno Gakuen university)
Toshihiko EZASHI (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
Heng-Yu FAN (Zhejiang University, China)
Helena FULKA (Institute of Experimental Medicine CAS, Czech Republic)
Cesare GALLI (Laboratorio de Tecnologie della Riproduzione CIZ, Italy)
Shaorong GAO (Tongii University, China)
Andrea C GORE (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Christopher GRUPEN (University of Sydney, Australia)
Jae Yong HAN (Seoul National University, Korea)
Kenshiro HARA (Tohoku University)
Takuro HORII (Gunma University)
Cimi ILMIAWATI (Universitas Andalas, Indonesia)
Takuya IMAMURA (Hiroshima University)
Kimiko INOUE (RIKEN BioResource Research Center)
Kei-ichiro ISHIGURO (Kumamoto University)
Junya ITO (Azabu University)
Hisataka IWATA (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
Luca JOVINE (Karolinska Institutet – a Medical University, Sweden)
Yoshiakira KANAI (The University of Tokyo)
Manabu KAWAHARA (Hokkaido University)
Nam-Hyung KIM (Wuyi University, China)
Koji KIMURA (Okayama University)
Naoko KIMURA (Yamagata University)
Kenichi KOBAYASHI (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan)
Shiro KURUSU (Kitasato University)
Hoon Taek LEE (Konkuk University, Korea)
Jibak LEE (Kobe University)
An LEI (China Agricultural University)
Mingxi LIU (Nanjing Medical University, China)
Pasqualino LOI (University of Teramo, Italy)
Fernando LÓPEZ-GATIUS (University of Lleida, Spain)
Pascal MERMILLOD (INRAE, France)
Kei MIYAMOTO (Kindai University)
Kazuchika MIYOSHI (Kagoshima University) 		Mohammad MONIRUZZAMAN (Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh)
Kentaro NAGAOKA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Yoshiaki NAKAMURA (Hiroshima University)
Yousuke NANIWA (Livestock Improvement Association of Japan, Inc.)
Takuya NISHIGAKI (UNAM, Mexico)
Mark NOTTLE (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
Jun OHGANE (Meiji University)
Satoshi OHKURA (Nagoya University)
Bibhash C PARIA (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Rangsun PARNPAI (Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand)
Osvaldo Bogado PASCOTTINI (Ghent University, Belgium)
Minoru SAKAGUCHI (Kitasato University)
Miki SAKATANI (Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, NARO)
Ryosuke SAKUMOTO (Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, NARO)
Toshihiro SAKURAI (Ohu university)
Motoki SASAKI (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine)
Ken SAWAI (Iwate University)
Amanda SFERRUZZI-PERRI (University of Cambridge, UK)
Satoshi SUGIMURA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Koji SUGIURA (The University of Tokyo)
Qing-Yuan SUN (Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, China)
Xiaofei SUN (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA)
Toru TAKAHASHI (Iwate University)
Toru TAKEO (Kumamoto University)
Teruko TAKETO (McGill University, Canada)
Satoshi TANAKA (The University of Tokyo)
Xiuchun Cindy TIAN (University of Connecticut, USA)
Pei-Shiue Jason TSAI (National Taiwan University)
Padet TUMMARUK (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Hideaki TOMURA (Meiji University)
Satoshi TSUKAMOTO (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
Yoshihisa UENOYAMA (Nagoya University)
Teruhiko WAKAYAMA (University of Yamanashi)
Eckhard WOLF (LMU Munich, Germany)
Nobuhiko YAMAUCHI (Kyushu University)
Keiichiro YOGO (Shizuoka University)
Koji YOSHIOKA (Azabu University)
Goro YOSHIZAKI (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)
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