About the Authors

Rutger Hermsen

hermsen@ctbp.ucsd.edu

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David W. Erickson

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Terence Hwa

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH DWE TH. Performed the experiments: RH DWE. Analyzed the data: RH DWE TH. Wrote the paper: RH.