About the Authors

Simon van Vliet

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

simon.vanvliet@unibas.ch (SvV); alma.dalco@unil.ch (ADC)

Affiliations Department of Zoology; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Christoph Hauert

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Zoology; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Mathematics; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kyle Fridberg

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin Ackermann

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland

Alma Dal Co

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

simon.vanvliet@unibas.ch (SvV); alma.dalco@unil.ch (ADC)

Affiliations School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland, Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.