About the Authors

Sandip Mandal

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Christopher Locke

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Mamoru Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hidekatsu Yamazaki

hide@kaiyodai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM CL HY. Performed the experiments: SM CL. Analyzed the data: SM MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM MT. Wrote the paper: SM HY.