About the Authors

Krešimir Josić

Contributed equally to this work with: Krešimir Josić, José Manuel López, William Ott

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

José Manuel López

Contributed equally to this work with: Krešimir Josić, José Manuel López, William Ott

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William Ott

Contributed equally to this work with: Krešimir Josić, José Manuel López, William Ott

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

LieJune Shiau

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Clear Lake, Texas, United States of America

Matthew R. Bennett

matthew.bennett@rice.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Biosciences & Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJ WO MRB. Performed the experiments: KJ JML WO MRB. Analyzed the data: KJ JML WO LS MRB. Wrote the paper: KJ JML WO LS MRB.