About the Authors

Jongrae Kim

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jkim@aero.gla.ac.uk

Affiliations Control and Instrumentation Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom , Systems Biology Laboratory, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Pat Heslop-Harrison

Affiliations Systems Biology Laboratory, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom , Department of Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Ian Postlethwaite

Affiliations Control and Instrumentation Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom , Systems Biology Laboratory, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Declan G Bates

Affiliations Control and Instrumentation Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom , Systems Biology Laboratory, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JK and DGB conceived the initial idea for the study. JK designed and performed the numerical experiments. IP checked the mathematical derivations. DGB and PHH provided biological interpretations of the results. All authors contributed to writing the paper.