About the Authors

Akihito Kawamori

Affiliations Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Insect Biomedical Research Center, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Kouhei Shimaji

Affiliations Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Insect Biomedical Research Center, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Masamitsu Yamaguchi

myamaguc@kit.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Insect Biomedical Research Center, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: AK KS MY. Analyzed the data: AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK MY. Wrote the paper: AK MY.