About the Authors

Hideto Takami

takamih@jamstec.go.jp

Affiliation Microbial Genome Research Group, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Hideki Noguchi

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Yoshihiro Takaki

Affiliation Microbial Genome Research Group, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Ikuo Uchiyama

Affiliation Laboratory of Genome Informatics, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Aichi, Japan

Atsushi Toyoda

Affiliation National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Shinro Nishi

Affiliation Microbial Genome Research Group, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Gab-Joo Chee

Affiliation Microbial Genome Research Group, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Wataru Arai

Affiliation Microbial Genome Research Group, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Takuro Nunoura

Affiliation Subground Animalcule Retrieval (Sugar) Project, Natsushima, Japan

Takehiko Itoh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Masahira Hattori

Affiliation Center for Omics and Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Ken Takai

Affiliation Subground Animalcule Retrieval (Sugar) Project, Natsushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT. Performed the experiments: HT GJC AT MH SN. Analyzed the data: HT YT HN IU WA SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN TN TI. Wrote the paper: HT YT HN IU KT.