About the Authors

Wenrui Hao

hao.50@mbi.osu.edu

Affiliation Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Larry S. Schlesinger

Affiliation Center for Microbial Interface Biology & Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Avner Friedman

Affiliation Mathematical Biosciences Institute & Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH LSS AF. Performed the experiments: WH LSS AF. Analyzed the data: WH LSS AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH LSS AF. Wrote the paper: WH LSS AF.