About the Authors

Shiho Hayakawa

Affiliation CIB-DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Yasuharu Takaku

Affiliation CIB-DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Jung Shan Hwang

Affiliation CIB-DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Takeo Horiguchi

Affiliation Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroshi Suga

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Walter Gehring

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Kazuho Ikeo

Affiliation CIB-DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Takashi Gojobori

takashi.gojobori@kaust.edu.sa

Affiliations CIB-DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan, Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, CBRC/BESE, KAUST, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH YT WJG KI TG. Performed the experiments: SH YT JSH HS. Analyzed the data: SH YT JSH TH KI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH TH. Wrote the paper: SH YT TH WJG TG.