About the Authors

Alu Konno

Current address: Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431–3192, Japan

Affiliation Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda 5-10-1, Shizuoka 415–0025, Japan

Kogiku Shiba

Affiliation Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda 5-10-1, Shizuoka 415–0025, Japan

Chunhua Cai

Affiliation Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda 5-10-1, Shizuoka 415–0025, Japan

Kazuo Inaba

kinaba@kurofune.shimoda.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliation Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Shimoda 5-10-1, Shizuoka 415–0025, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK KI. Performed the experiments: AK KS CC KI. Analyzed the data: AK KI. Wrote the paper: AK KI.