About the Authors

Eric Libby

elibby@santafe.edu

Affiliations New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Paul B. Rainey

Affiliations New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL PR. Performed the experiments: EL. Analyzed the data: EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL. Wrote the paper: EL PR.