About the Authors

Marco Tarantola

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity, Goettingen, Germany, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Albert Bae

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Danny Fuller

Affiliation Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eberhard Bodenschatz

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity, Goettingen, Germany, Institute of Nonlinear Dynamics, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-state Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Wouter-Jan Rappel

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

William F. Loomis

wloomis@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT WFL. Performed the experiments: MT DF. Analyzed the data: MT AB EB W-JR WFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB DF. Wrote the paper: MT W-JR WFL.