About the Authors

Huguette Croisier

Huguette.Croisier@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Xiahui Tan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachussetts, United States of America

Jose F. Perez-Zoghbi

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Michael J. Sanderson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachussetts, United States of America

James Sneyd

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Bindi S. Brook

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC MJS JFPZ XT JS. Performed the experiments: XT JFPZ MJS. Analyzed the data: HC MJS XT JFPZ BSB JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC MJS XT JFPZ JS. Wrote the paper: HC BSB MJS.