About the Authors

Zhuolin Qu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuolin Qu, Denis Patterson

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

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Denis Patterson

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhuolin Qu, Denis Patterson

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

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Lihong Zhao

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

Current address: Department of Mathematics, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Joan Ponce

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

Affiliation School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Christina J. Edholm

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

Affiliation Mathematics Department, Scripps College, Claremont, California, United States of America

Olivia F. Prosper Feldman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Lauren M. Childs

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

lchilds@vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Virginia Tech Center for the Mathematics of Biosystems, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.