About the Authors

Lauren Ancel Meyers

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: laurenmeyers@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliations Section of Integrative Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America , Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Fredric D Ancel

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael Lachmann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

LAM and ML conceived and designed the experiments. LAM performed the experiments. LAM, FDA, and ML analyzed the data and contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. LAM and ML wrote the paper.