About the Authors
- Shigeharu Kinoshita
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Affiliation Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Ning Wang
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Affiliation Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Haruka Inoue
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Affiliation Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Kaoru Maeyama
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Affiliation Mikimoto Pharmaceutical CO., LTD, Ise, Mie, Japan
- Kikuhiko Okamoto
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Affiliation Mikimoto Pharmaceutical CO., LTD, Ise, Mie, Japan
- Kiyohito Nagai
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Affiliation Pearl Research Institute, Mikimoto Co., Ltd, Shima, Mie, Japan
- Hidehiro Kondo
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genome Science, Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
- Ikuo Hirono
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genome Science, Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
- Shuichi Asakawa
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Affiliation Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Shugo Watabe
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* E-mail: awatabe@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors declare that some authors are employed by commercial companies: Kaoru Maeyama and Kikuhiko Okamoto are affiliated with Mikimoto Pharmaceutical CO., LTD, Ise, Mie 516-8581, Japan, whereas Kiyohito Nagai is affiliated with Pearl Research Institute, Mikimoto CO., LTD, Shima Mie 517-0403, Japan. The authors declare that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in your guide for authors http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action#sharing. They do not have any other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, etc.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SW. Performed the experiments: SK NW HI HK. Analyzed the data: SK HK SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM KO KN IH. Wrote the paper: SK SW.