About the Authors

Margherita Maria Ferrari

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

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Svetlana Poznanović

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Manda Riehl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America

Jacob Lusk

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Stella Hartono

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Georgina Gonzalez-Isunza

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Frédéric Chédin

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mariel Vázquez

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

mrlvazquez@ucdavis.edu (MV); jonoska@usf.edu (NJ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Nataša Jonoska

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

mrlvazquez@ucdavis.edu (MV); jonoska@usf.edu (NJ)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.