Synergistic effects of proteinaceous pheromone and nitrogen starvation on male gametogenesis in the anisogamous volvocine alga Eudorina

• Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hiroko.toyooka.37@hosei.ac.jp (HK-T), hirono@hosei.ac.jp (MH)

  ¶☯ These authors equally contributed as first authors.

  Affiliations Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0168-6206

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• Makoto Ono ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ These authors equally contributed as first authors.

  Affiliation Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Hamaji,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Center for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2801-2148

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• Hisayoshi Nozaki,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9308-4498

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• Masafumi Hirono

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hiroko.toyooka.37@hosei.ac.jp (HK-T), hirono@hosei.ac.jp (MH)

  Affiliations Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

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