About the Authors

Almut Scherer

Affiliation Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Marcel Salathé

Affiliation Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: seb@env.ethz.ch

Affiliation Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AS and SB conceived and designed the experiments. AS performed the experiments. AS analyzed the data. AS and MS contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AS, MS, and SB wrote the paper.