About the Authors

Beata Hat

Contributed equally to this work with: Beata Hat, Marek Kochańczyk

Affiliation Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Marek Kochańczyk

Contributed equally to this work with: Beata Hat, Marek Kochańczyk

Affiliation Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Marta N. Bogdał

Affiliation Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Tomasz Lipniacki

tlipnia@ippt.pan.pl

Affiliations Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK. Wrote the paper: BH MK TL. Constructed mathematical model: BH MNB TL. Designed the software and performed the bifurcation analysis: MK.