About the Authors

Peter L. Nara

Affiliations Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Gregory J. Tobin

Affiliations Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

A. Ray Chaudhuri

Affiliation Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jessie D. Trujillo

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

George Lin

Affiliation Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Michael W. Cho

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Simon A. Levin

slevin@princeton.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Wilfred Ndifon

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Ned S. Wingreen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.