About the Authors

Noriaki Kadohama

Affiliation Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Tatsuaki Goh

Affiliation Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Miwa Ohnishi

Affiliations Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

Hidehiro Fukaki

Affiliations Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuro Mimura

mimura@kobe-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihiro Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK YS TM. Performed the experiments: NK TG MO YS. Analyzed the data: NK HF YS TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK HF YS TM. Wrote the paper: NK TM.