About the Authors

Alan Veliz-Cuba

Current address: Department of Mathematics, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Andrew J. Hirning

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Adam A. Atanas

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Faiza Hussain

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Flavia Vancia

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Krešimir Josić

josic@math.uh.edu (KJ); matthew.bennett@rice.edu (MRB)

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthew R. Bennett

josic@math.uh.edu (KJ); matthew.bennett@rice.edu (MRB)

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVC KJ MRB. Performed the experiments: AJH FH. Analyzed the data: AVC FV AAA. Wrote the paper: AVC AJH KJ MRB.