About the Authors

Daniel Nicklas

Affiliation Modeling of Biological Networks Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Leonor Saiz

lsaiz@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Modeling of Biological Networks Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: DN LS. Wrote the paper: DN LS. Conceived and designed research: LS. Performed the simulations: DN. Supervised the computational procedures: LS..