About the Authors

Takaaki Kojima

kojimat@nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp (TK); hnakano@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp (HN)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Emi Kunitake

Affiliation Department of Biological Mechanisms and Functions, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Kunio Ihara

Affiliation Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan

Tetsuo Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Biological Mechanisms and Functions, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Hideo Nakano

kojimat@nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp (TK); hnakano@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp (HN)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK HN TK. Performed the experiments: EK KI TK. Analyzed the data: TK. Wrote the paper: EK KI TK.