About the Authors

Yuji Yasukochi

yaskoch@affrc.go.jp

Affiliation Insect Genome Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Nami Miura

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ryo Nakano

Current address: Entomology Research Team, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ken Sahara

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Molecular Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Yukio Ishikawa

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY NM YI. Performed the experiments: YY NM KS. Analyzed the data: YY NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RN. Wrote the paper: YY YI.