About the Authors

Takashi Matsumoto

Affiliation Genome Research Center, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Choong-Soo Yun

Affiliation Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hirofumi Yoshikawa

Affiliations Genome Research Center, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Hiromi Nishida

hnishida@iu.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Agricultural Bioinformatics Research Unit, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN. Performed the experiments: TM HY. Analyzed the data: TM C-SY HN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY HN. Wrote the paper: TM HN.