About the Authors

Jeffrey A. Fawcett

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey A. Fawcett, Tetsushi Iida

fawcett@soken.ac.jp (JAF); jnakayam@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (JN); innan_hideki@soken.ac.jp (HI)

Affiliation Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsushi Iida

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey A. Fawcett, Tetsushi Iida

Affiliation National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Shohei Takuno

Affiliation Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

Ryuichi P. Sugino

Affiliations Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomoyuki Kado

Affiliation Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuto Kugou

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Sachiko Mura

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takehiko Kobayashi

Affiliation National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Kunihiro Ohta

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun-ichi Nakayama

fawcett@soken.ac.jp (JAF); jnakayam@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (JN); innan_hideki@soken.ac.jp (HI)

Affiliation Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan

Hideki Innan

fawcett@soken.ac.jp (JAF); jnakayam@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (JN); innan_hideki@soken.ac.jp (HI)

Affiliation Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T. Kobayashi KO JN HI. Performed the experiments: TI KK SM. Analyzed the data: JAF ST RPS T. Kado. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JN. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JAF HI.