About the Authors

Misato Yokoe

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Eriko Takayama-Watanabe

Affiliation Institute of Arts and Sciences, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Yoko Saito

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Megumi Kutsuzawa

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Kosuke Fujita

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Haruki Ochi

Affiliation School of Medicine, Yamagata University, Iida-Nishi, Yamagata, Japan

Yuni Nakauchi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Akihiko Watanabe

watan@sci.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AW. Data curation: AW. Formal analysis: MY YS. Funding acquisition: ET-W AW. Investigation: MY ET-W YS MK KF HO YN AW. Methodology: AW. Project administration: AW. Resources: MY ET-W YS AW. Supervision: AW. Validation: AW. Visualization: ET-W HO YN AW. Writing - original draft: AW. Writing - review & editing: AW ET-W.