About the Authors
- Ximing Qin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ximing Qin, Mark Byrne
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Mark Byrne
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ximing Qin, Mark Byrne
Affiliation Physics Department, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
- Yao Xu
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Tetsuya Mori
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Carl Hirschie Johnson
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* E-mail: carl.h.johnson@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: XQ MB YX TM CHJ. Performed the experiments: XQ YX TM. Analyzed the data: XQ YX TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX TM. Wrote the paper: XQ MB CHJ. Constructed the mathematical model and ran the simulations: MB.