About the Authors

Tsubasa Nishi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Medicine, Mie University, Tsu, Japan

Izumi Kaneko

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Medicine, Mie University, Tsu, Japan

Shiroh Iwanaga

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

Masao Yuda

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

m-yuda@med.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Zoology, Department of Medicine, Mie University, Tsu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.