About the Authors

Clive G. Bowsher

c.bowsher@bristol.ac.uk (CGB); peter.swain@ed.ac.uk (PSS)

Affiliation School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Margaritis Voliotis

Affiliation School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Peter S. Swain

c.bowsher@bristol.ac.uk (CGB); peter.swain@ed.ac.uk (PSS)

Affiliation Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CGB PSS. Performed the experiments: CGB MV PSS. Wrote the paper: CGB PSS.