About the Authors

Yoji Nakamura

yojnakam@affrc.go.jp (YN); tgojobor@nig.ac.jp (TG)

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Naobumi Sasaki

Affiliation Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Masahiro Kobayashi

Affiliation Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, Japan

Nobuhiko Ojima

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Motoshige Yasuike

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuya Shigenobu

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Masataka Satomi

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiya Fukuma

Affiliation Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Koji Shiwaku

Affiliation Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Atsumi Tsujimoto

Affiliation Japan Software Management Co. Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Takanori Kobayashi

Affiliation Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Ichiro Nakayama

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Fuminari Ito

Affiliation National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Fisheries Research Agency, Minami-ise, Mie, Japan

Kazuhiro Nakajima

Affiliation Japan Sea National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, Chuou-ku, Niigata, Japan

Motohiko Sano

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Tokio Wada

Affiliation Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Satoru Kuhara

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Kiyoshi Inouye

Affiliation Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Takashi Gojobori

yojnakam@affrc.go.jp (YN); tgojobor@nig.ac.jp (TG)

Affiliation Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Kazuho Ikeo

Affiliation Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

Yoshiya Fukuma (YF) and Koji Shiwaku (KS) are employed by Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., and Dr. Atsumi Tsujimoto (AT) is employed by Japan Software Management Co. Ltd. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK IN FI KN M. Sano TW SK K. Inouye TG K. Ikeo. Performed the experiments: MK NO MY YS. Analyzed the data: YN NS NO M. Sano. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Satomi YF KS AT. Wrote the paper: YN NS MK NO MY M. Sano TG K. Ikeo.