About the Authors

Anupom Mondal

Affiliation Area of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

Sayaka Aizawa

Affiliation Area of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

Ichiro Sakata

Affiliation Area of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

Chayon Goswami

Affiliation Area of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

Sen-ichi Oda

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Management and Resources, Department of Zoology, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan

Takafumi Sakai

tsakai@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Area of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS IS. Performed the experiments: AM SA CG. Analyzed the data: AM TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO. Wrote the paper: AM.