About the Authors

Megumi Tsuchiya

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Division of Sex Differentiation, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

Hidesato Ogawa

hidesato@nict.go.jp (HO); hiraoka@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (YH)

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Division of Sex Differentiation, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, Advanced ICT Research Institute Kobe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Taiga Suzuki

Affiliation Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Noriyuki Sugiyama

Affiliation Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi-dori, Kyoto, Japan

Tokuko Haraguchi

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Advanced ICT Research Institute Kobe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Yasushi Hiraoka

hidesato@nict.go.jp (HO); hiraoka@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp (YH)

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Advanced ICT Research Institute Kobe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT HO. Performed the experiments: MT HO NS. Analyzed the data: MT HO TS NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HO TH YH. Wrote the paper: MT HO TH YH.