About the Authors

Martial L. Ndeffo Mbah

martial.ndeffo-mbah@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jingzhou Liu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Chris T. Bauch

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Yonas I. Tekel

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jan Medlock

Affiliations Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Lauren Ancel Meyers

Affiliations Section of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Alison P. Galvani

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLNM JL CTB YIT JM LAM APG. Performed the experiments: MLNM JL. Analyzed the data: MLNM. Wrote the paper: MLNM JL CTB YIT JM LAM APG.