About the Authors

Takahiro Fukui

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Munetaka Kawamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Shoji

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Kiuchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sumio Sugano

Affiliation Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Toru Shimada

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Susumu Katsuma

katsuma@ss.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK TK. Performed the experiments: TF MK KS TK SK. Analyzed the data: TF MK KS TK SS TS YS SK. Wrote the paper: SK.