About the Authors

Taisuke Ekino

Affiliations Laboratory of Nematology, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Saga, Japan, The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Toyoshi Yoshiga

Affiliations Laboratory of Nematology, Department of Applied Biological Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Saga, Japan, The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Yuko Takeuchi-Kaneko

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Natsumi Kanzaki

nkanzaki@affrc.go.jp

Current address: Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Fushimi, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliation Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TE TY YT NK. Data curation: TE NK. Formal analysis: TE NK. Funding acquisition: YT NK. Investigation: TE NK. Methodology: TE TY NK. Project administration: TY NK. Resources: TY YT NK. Supervision: NK. Validation: TE NK. Visualization: TE NK. Writing – original draft: TE NK. Writing – review & editing: TE TY YT NK.