About the Authors

Federica Giardina

federica@math.su.se

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Ethan Obie Romero-Severson

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Jan Albert

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Tom Britton

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Thomas Leitner

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG EORS JA TB TL. Performed the experiments: FG. Analyzed the data: FG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG EORS. Wrote the paper: FG EORS TL.