About the Authors

Kiyotaka Takishita

takishitak@jamstec.go.jp

Affiliation Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Haruyo Yamaguchi

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Tadashi Maruyama

Affiliation Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuji Inagaki

Affiliation Center for Computational Sciences and Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT YI. Performed the experiments: KT YI. Analyzed the data: KT YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KT HY TM YI. Wrote the paper: KT YI.