About the Authors

Mathias Franzius

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.franzius@biologie.hu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Henning Sprekeler

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Laurenz Wiskott

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MF and LW conceived and designed the experiments. MF and HS analyzed the data. All authors contributed to writing the paper. MF performed experiments. HS and LW designed and performed mathematical analysis.