About the Authors

Germán Enciso

enciso@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Douglas R. Kellogg

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Arturo Vargas

Affiliation Computational and Applied Mathematics Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GE DRK. Analyzed the data: GE DRK. Wrote the paper: GE DRK. Implemented Matlab simulations: GE AV. Carried out mathematical proofs: GE AV. Wrote the supplementary text: GE.