About the Authors

Yuichi Oba

oba@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp (YO); kuma@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (YK)

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan

Hitoo Ôhira

Affiliation Kitsuneyama, Maigi-cho, Okazaki, 444-3511, Japan

Yukio Murase

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Diversity, Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, 467-8501, Japan

Akihiko Moriyama

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Diversity, Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, 467-8501, Japan

Yoshinori Kumazawa

oba@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp (YO); kuma@nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp (YK)

Affiliation Research Center for Biological Diversity, Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, 467-8501, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO HÔ AM YK. Performed the experiments: YO HÔ YM. Analyzed the data: YO YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YO AM YK. Wrote the paper: YO YK.