About the Authors

Gil Ariel

arielg@math.biu.ac.il (GA); ayali@post.tau.ac.il (AA)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Yotam Ophir

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Sagi Levi

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Eshel Ben-Jacob

Affiliations Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Amir Ayali

arielg@math.biu.ac.il (GA); ayali@post.tau.ac.il (AA)

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

Eshel Ben-Jacob is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GA AA. Performed the experiments: YO SL. Analyzed the data: YO GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EBJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AA GA EBJ.