About the Authors

Wing-Cheong Lo

Contributed equally to this work with: Wing-Cheong Lo, Mid Eum Lee

Affiliation Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mid Eum Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Wing-Cheong Lo, Mid Eum Lee

Affiliation Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Monisha Narayan

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ching-Shan Chou

Affiliations Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hay-Oak Park

park.294@osu.edu

Affiliations Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WCL MEL CSC HOP. Performed the experiments: MEL MN. Analyzed the data: WCL MEL MN CSC HOP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCL MEL MN. Wrote the paper: WCL MEL CSC HOP. Performed computer simulations: WCL CSC.