About the Authors

Filipe Tostevin

Contributed equally to this work with: Filipe Tostevin, Manon Wigbers

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

Affiliation Physics of Complex Biosystems, Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Manon Wigbers

Contributed equally to this work with: Filipe Tostevin, Manon Wigbers

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

Affiliations Physics of Complex Biosystems, Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Ulrich Gerland

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gerland@tum.de

Affiliation Physics of Complex Biosystems, Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.