About the Authors

Sergei Maslov

ssmaslov@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Biological, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Kim Sneppen

Affiliation Center for Models of Life, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM KS. Performed the experiments: SM KS. Analyzed the data: SM KS. Wrote the paper: SM KS.