About the Authors

Luis Zaman

luis.zaman@gmail.com (LZ); ofria@msu.edu (CO)

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliations BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Justin R. Meyer

Current address: Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Suhas Devangam

Affiliation School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

David M. Bryson

Affiliation BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Richard E. Lenski

Affiliations BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Charles Ofria

luis.zaman@gmail.com (LZ); ofria@msu.edu (CO)

Affiliations BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ JRM DMB REL CO. Performed the experiments: LZ SD. Analyzed the data: LZ SD. Wrote the paper: LZ JRM REL CO. Designed and implemented Avida features: DMB LZ.