About the Authors

Qi Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Ma, Dan V. Nicolau Jr

Affiliation Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Department of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Dan V. Nicolau Jr

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Ma, Dan V. Nicolau Jr

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Philip K. Maini

Affiliation Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Richard M. Berry

Affiliation Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fan Bai

fbai@pku.edu.cn

Affiliation Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Department of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DVN PKM RMB FB. Performed the experiments: QM DVN. Analyzed the data: QM DVN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QM DVN FB. Wrote the paper: QM DVN FB.