About the Authors

Norichika Ogata

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Yokoyama

Affiliation Laboratory of Sericultural Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Kikuo Iwabuchi

kikkuo@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO KI. Performed the experiments: NO. Analyzed the data: NO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO TY KI. Wrote the paper: NO KI.