About the Authors

Kenichi W. Okamoto

kenichi.okamoto@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Fred Gould

Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alun L. Lloyd

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Biomathematics, Graduate Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWO. Performed the experiments: KWO. Analyzed the data: KWO FG ALL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KWO. Wrote the paper: KWO FG ALL.