About the Authors

Vitaly V. Ganusov

vitaly.ganusov@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeremy Auerbach

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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