About the Authors

Yuchi Qiu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Lianna Fung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, The NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Thomas F. Schilling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tshilli@uci.edu (TFS); qnie@math.uci.edu (QN)

Affiliations Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, The NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Qing Nie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tshilli@uci.edu (TFS); qnie@math.uci.edu (QN)

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, The NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.