About the Authors

Miriam Fritsche

fritsche@tphys.uni-heidelberg.de (MF); Joerg.Bewersdorf@yale.edu (JB)

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Laura G. Reinholdt

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Mark Lessard

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Mary Ann Handel

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Jörg Bewersdorf

fritsche@tphys.uni-heidelberg.de (MF); Joerg.Bewersdorf@yale.edu (JB)

Current address: Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Dieter W. Heermann

Affiliations Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF LGR JB DWH. Performed the experiments: MF LGR ML JB DWH. Analyzed the data: MF LGR ML JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF LGR ML MAH JB DWH. Wrote the paper: MF LGR MAH JB DWH.