About the Authors

Nuno M. Oliveira

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Esteban Martinez-Garcia

Affiliations FAS Center for Systems Biology, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Joao Xavier

Affiliations FAS Center for Systems Biology, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Computational Biology Program, New York, New York, United States of America

William M. Durham

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Roberto Kolter

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wook Kim

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, FAS Center for Systems Biology, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin R. Foster

kevin.foster@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, FAS Center for Systems Biology, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMO EMG JX RK WMD WK KRF. Performed the experiments: NMO EMG KRF. Analyzed the data: NMO EMG JX KRF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK WK. Wrote the paper: NMO RK WK KRF.