About the Authors

Elif Tekin

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

David Hunt

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

Mitchell G. Newberry

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Van M. Savage

vsavage@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, 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

Conceptualization: ET DH MGN VMS. Data curation: ET. Formal analysis: ET VMS. Funding acquisition: VMS. Investigation: ET VMS. Methodology: ET DH VMS. Project administration: VMS. Resources: MGN. Software: ET DH MGN. Supervision: VMS. Validation: VMS. Visualization: ET VMS. Writing – original draft: ET VMS. Writing – review & editing: ET DH MGN VMS.