About the Authors

William F. Loomis

wloomis@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Danny Fuller

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Edgar Gutierrez

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alex Groisman

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wouter-Jan Rappel

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WFL AG. Performed the experiments: DF EG. Analyzed the data: WFL W-JR AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG. Wrote the paper: WFL.