About the Authors

Dominik Wodarz

dwodarz@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Rowland Hall, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Andrew Hofacre

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Cancer Research Institute, University of California Irvine, California, United States of America

John W. Lau

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Zhiying Sun

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Rowland Hall, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Hung Fan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Cancer Research Institute, University of California Irvine, California, United States of America

Natalia L. Komarova

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Rowland Hall, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW HF NLK. Performed the experiments: DW AH JWL ZS NLK. Analyzed the data: DW AH HF NLK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW AH HF NLK. Wrote the paper: DW NLK.