About the Authors

Naoki Yamanaka

Current address: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

Sachie Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

Dušan Žitňan

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Ken Watanabe

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

Tsuyoshi Kawada

Affiliation Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Osaka, Japan

Honoo Satake

Affiliation Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, Osaka, Japan

Yu Kaneko

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan

Kiyoshi Hiruma

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan

Yoshiaki Tanaka

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

Tetsuro Shinoda

shinoda@affrc.go.jp (TS); kataoka@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

Hiroshi Kataoka

shinoda@affrc.go.jp (TS); kataoka@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HK)

Affiliation Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NY KH YT TS HK. Performed the experiments: NY SY D KW YK KH YT TS. Analyzed the data: NY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK HS. Wrote the paper: NY D KH TS.