About the Authors

Elizabeth A. Hobson

ehobson@nimbios.org

Affiliations National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Simon DeDeo

Affiliations Department of Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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