About the Authors

Atsushi Nakabachi

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Nakabachi, Naruo Nikoh

nakabachi@eiiris.tut.ac.jp

Affiliations Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan

Naruo Nikoh

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Nakabachi, Naruo Nikoh

Affiliation Department of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan, Chiba, Japan

Kenshiro Oshima

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Hiromitsu Inoue

Affiliation Citrus Research Division, National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Kuchinotsu, Japan

Moriya Ohkuma

Affiliation Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Japan

Yuichi Hongoh

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Shin-ya Miyagishima

Affiliation Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Masahira Hattori

Affiliation Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Takema Fukatsu

Affiliation Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN NN. Performed the experiments: AN NN. Analyzed the data: AN NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KO HI MO YH SM MH. Wrote the paper: AN NN TF.