About the Authors

Brandon Hollingsworth

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomathematics Graduate Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Kenichi W. Okamoto

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Alun L. Lloyd

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alun_lloyd@ncsu.edu

Affiliations Biomathematics Graduate Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.