About the Authors

Naoyuki Ohta

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan

Yutaka Satou

yutaka@ascidian.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO YS. Performed the experiments: NO. Analyzed the data: NO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO YS. Wrote the paper: NO YS.