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- Kensuke Okada1,#,
- Masako Katsuki2,#,
- Manmohan D. Sharma3,
- Katsuya Kiyose1,
- Tomokazu Seko4,
- Yasukazu Okada5,
- Alastair J. Wilson3 and
- David J. Hosken3,*
- 1Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, 111 Tsushima-naka, Okayama City, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- 2Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
- 3Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK
- 4National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Central Region Agricultural Research Center, Kannondai 2-1-18, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
- 5Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiohsawa 1-1, Hachiohji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
- ↵*Corresponding author. d.j.hosken{at}exeter.ac.uk
↵# Kensuke Okada and Masako Katsuki contributed equally to this work.
Author contributions: K.O., M.K., T.M., Y.O., MDS and DJH designed the research; K.O., M.K., K.K., Y.O., and MDS conducted experiments; KO, MDS, AJW analyzed data; and K.O., M.K., AJW, and DJH wrote the paper with assistance from all authors.
Posted October 16, 2020.
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