About the Authors

Shiroh Iwanaga

Affiliation Department of Medical Zoology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Izumi Kaneko

Affiliation Department of Medical Zoology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Tomomi Kato

Affiliation Department of Medical Zoology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Masao Yuda

m-yuda@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medical Zoology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SI MY. Performed the experiments: SI IK TK MY. Analyzed the data: SI MY. Wrote the paper: MY.