About the Authors

Yoichiroh Hosokawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiroh Hosokawa, Mikiko Tanaka

hosokawa@hskw.jp (YH); mitanaka@bio.titech.ac.jp (MT)

Affiliation Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

Haruki Ochi

Affiliation Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

Takanori Iino

Affiliation Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

Akihiro Hiraoka

Affiliation Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

Mikiko Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoichiroh Hosokawa, Mikiko Tanaka

hosokawa@hskw.jp (YH); mitanaka@bio.titech.ac.jp (MT)

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH HO MT. Analyzed the data: YH HO MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH HO MT. Wrote the paper: YH HO MT. Performed laser irradiation: YH TI AH. Performed embryological and histological experiments: HO MT.