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5 6 Yukari Suzuki, Lina G. Kawaguchi, Dulee T. Munidasa, and Yukihiko Toquenaga 7 8 Division of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental 9 Sciences, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN 10 11 Complete Affiliation: 12 Division of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Life and Environmental 13 Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Ten-Nou-Dai, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-8572, JAPAN 14 15 Corresponding Author: 16 Yukari Suzuki 17 Tel.: 18 + 81-22-795-6689 19 Fax: 20 + 81-22-795-6689 21 E-mail: 22 yukari@m.tains.tohoku.ac.jp 23 Present Affiliation of Corresponding Author: 24 Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku 25 University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan 26