About the Authors

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, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yasue Koyano

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

WonKyung Kang

Affiliation Molecular Entomology Laboratory, RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako, Japan

Ryuhei Kokusho

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

Shizuo George Kamita

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Toru Shimada

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK. Performed the experiments: SK YK WK RK. Analyzed the data: SK YK WK RK SGK TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGK. Wrote the paper: SK SGK.