About the Authors

Stanca M. Ciupe

stanca@math.vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Sarah Hews

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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