About the Authors

Marco Arieli Herrera-Valdez

marco.herrera@upr.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Puerto Rico in Cayey, Cayey, Puerto Rico, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Puerto Rico in Cayey, Cayey, Puerto Rico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH. Performed the experiments: MH. Analyzed the data: MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH. Wrote the paper: MH. Original idea behind the manuscript, performed the mathematical analysis, wrote the code for numerical simulations and wrote the paper: MH.