About the Authors

Sebastian Germerodt

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Katrin Bohl

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, Research Group Theoretical Systems Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Anja Lück

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, Research Group Theoretical Systems Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Samay Pande

Current address: Institute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation Experimental Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

Anja Schröter

Current address: Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans-Knöll-Institute, Jena, Germany

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Christoph Kaleta

Affiliations Research Group Theoretical Systems Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, Research Group Medical Systems Biology, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany

Stefan Schuster

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Christian Kost

christiankost@gmail.com

Affiliations Experimental Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, Department of Ecology and Evolution, School of Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück University, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived the project: SG CKo. Designed the study: CKo SG SP AS CKa SS. Performed the laboratory experiments: SP. Performed the in silico experiments: SG AL KB AS. Analyzed the data: SG CKo KB AS. Wrote the paper: CKo SG. Developed the cellular automaton: AL SG.