Declaration of Ethical Conduct in Research

and Statement of Copyright Transfer

To: Editor of Annals of Animal Resource Sciences

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◆ Declaration of ethical conduct in research

* Verify the following items and mark with a ✔ sign.

▪ _____I/we abide by the『Annals of Animal Resource Sciences』 Guidelines while writing this manuscript.

▪ _____The author(s) has a specific and important contribution, and is officially responsible for the content of the article.

▪ _____This manuscript has not been published before and will not be submitted for publication elsewhere until a decision has been made on its acceptability for publication.

▪ _____The author(s) does conduct all research activities (e.g., data collection, writing reports, and presenting results) in an honest and sincere way, describe the research content and its importance in an objective and specific way, and not change, omit, or add to the results.

▪ _____There are no research misconducts, such as plagiarism, duplication of publication, falsification, or distortion of research findings.

◆ Statement of copyright transfer

I hereby certify that I agreed to submit the manuscript entitled as above to Annals of

Animal Resource Sciences with the following statements:

▪ This manuscript is original and there is no copyright problem, defamation and privacy intrusion. Any legal or ethical damage should not be directed to the Institute of Animal Life Science (ALS) in Kangwon National University due to this manuscript.

▪ All authors contributed to this manuscript actually and intellectually and have responsibility equally to this manuscript.

▪ This manuscript was not published or considered for publication to any other scientific journals in the world. It will not be submitted again to other journals without permission from Annals of Animal Resource Sciences if it is accepted for publication.

▪ Copyright of this manuscript shall be transferred to the ALS if it is published in Annals of Animal Resource Sciences. It means that if any persons including authors want to use the contents of this manuscript, they should receive the permission from the ALS and the source of contents should be clarified.

Conflict of interest Disclosure Statement

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