About the Authors

Kirsten H. ten Tusscher

K.H.W.J.tenTusscher@uu.nl

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Scientific Computing, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

Paulien Hogeweg

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KHtT PH. Performed the experiments: KHtT. Analyzed the data: KHtT PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KHtT. Wrote the paper: KHtT PH.