About the Authors

Thomas D. Cuypers

T.D.Cuypers@uu.nl

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Paulien Hogeweg

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TDC PH. Performed the experiments: TDC. Analyzed the data: TDC PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TDC. Wrote the paper: TDC.