About the Authors

Tessa M. Vergroesen

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

Affiliation Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Vincent Vermeulen

Roles Software

Affiliation Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Roeland M. H. Merks

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

merksrmh@math.leidenuniv.nl

Affiliations Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. TV and VV have declared that no competing interests exist. RM is academic editor of PLOS Computational Biology. These competing interests will not alter adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.