About the Authors

Takahiro Umezawa

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Akira Kato

akirkato@bio.titech.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Maho Ogoshi

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Ushimado Marine Laboratory, Okayama University, Shimonoseki Marine Science Museum, Setouchi, Japan

Kayoko Ookata

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Keijiro Munakata

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Yoko Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Zinia Islam

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyuki Doi

Affiliation Shimonoseki Academy of Marine Science, Shimonoseki, Japan

Michael F. Romero

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Shigehisa Hirose

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TU AK MO MFR SH. Performed the experiments: TU AK MO KO KM YY ZI. Analyzed the data: TU AK MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK HD MFR SH. Wrote the paper: TU AK MFR SH.