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Authors and Affiliations

1. Laboratory of Marine Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

   Mariel Galotta, Tapas Chakraborty & Kohei Ohta

2. Laboratory of Aquatic Molecular Developmental Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

   Yukiko Ogino

3. Laboratory of Aquaculture and Nutrient Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan

   Naoki Nagano

4. School and Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

   Takehiko Itoh

5. Karatsu satellite of Aqua-Bioresource Innovation Center, Kyushu University, Karatsu, Japan

   Michiya Matsuyama, Tapas Chakraborty & Kohei Ohta

Contributions

MG conceived and designed the study, performed the experiments, and acquired and analyzed the data. TI provided the aligned genomic data. YO, NN, TC, MM, and KO contributed to manuscript writing. All authors revised and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Tapas Chakraborty or Kohei Ohta.

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