About the Authors

Alistair N. Boettiger

Contributed equally to this work with: Alistair N. Boettiger, Peter L. Ralph, Steven N. Evans

alistair@berkeley.edu

Affiliation Biophysics Graduate Group and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Peter L. Ralph

Contributed equally to this work with: Alistair N. Boettiger, Peter L. Ralph, Steven N. Evans

Affiliations Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Steven N. Evans

Contributed equally to this work with: Alistair N. Boettiger, Peter L. Ralph, Steven N. Evans

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ANB PLR SNE. Wrote the paper: ANB PLR SNE. Wrote software: ANB. Analyzed results: ANB, PLR, SNE. Developed mathematical approach: PLR, SNE. Assisted coding: PLR.