About the Authors

Prabhat Shankar

Affiliations Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, Laboratory for Physical Biology, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan

Masatoshi Nishikawa

Current address: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Affiliation RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

Tatsuo Shibata

tatsuoshibata@cdb.riken.jp

Affiliations Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, Laboratory for Physical Biology, RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS MN TS. Performed the experiments: PS MN TS. Analyzed the data: PS MN TS. Wrote the paper: PS TS.