About the Authors

Nobuto Takeuchi

takeuchi.nobuto@gmail.com

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Paulien Hogeweg

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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