About the Authors

Gavin Melaugh

g.melaugh@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom

Jaime Hutchison

Affiliation Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1199, United States of America

Kasper Nørskov Kragh

Affiliation Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty Of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark

Yasuhiko Irie

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

Aled Roberts

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom

Thomas Bjarnsholt

Affiliations Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty Of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark, Department for Clinical Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Stephen P. Diggle

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom

Vernita D. Gordon

Affiliation Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1199, United States of America

Rosalind J. Allen

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM RA TB VG SD KK JH YI AR. Performed the experiments: GM. Analyzed the data: GM RA . Wrote the paper: GM JH KK YI AR TB SD VG RA.