About the Authors

Takao Sasado

tsasado@gmail.com

Current address: Department of Biology, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioresources, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan

Hisato Kondoh

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan

Makoto Furutani-Seiki

Affiliation School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan

Kiyoshi Naruse

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioresources, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TS HK MFS KN. Formal analysis: TS. Funding acquisition: TS. Investigation: TS. Project administration: TS. Resources: TS HK MFS. Supervision: HK MFS KN. Validation: TS. Visualization: TS HK. Writing – original draft: TS. Writing – review & editing: TS HK MFS KN.