About the Authors

Mitchell G Newberry

Current address: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology, 433 S University Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Affiliation Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel B Ennis

Affiliation Department of Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Physics, and Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Van M Savage

vsavage@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomathematics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 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: MGN VMS DBE. Performed the experiments: MGN. Analyzed the data: MGN VMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGN VMS DBE. Wrote the paper: MGN VMS DBE. Wrote software: MGN.