About the Authors

Stefan Legewie

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: s.legewie@biologie.hu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Nils Blüthgen

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Hanspeter Herzel

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SL and HH conceived and designed the experiments. SL and NB performed the experiments. SL, NB, and HH wrote the paper.