About the Authors

Johannes Taktikos

Affiliations Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Berlin, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Yen Ting Lin

Current address: The University of Manchester, School of Physics and Astronomy, Manchester, United Kingdom

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Holger Stark

Affiliation Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Berlin, Germany

Nicolas Biais

nicolas@mechano-micro-biology.org (NB); vzaburd@pks.mpg.de (VZ)

Affiliation Brooklyn College of City University of New York, Department of Biology, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Vasily Zaburdaev

nicolas@mechano-micro-biology.org (NB); vzaburd@pks.mpg.de (VZ)

Affiliations Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT HS NB VZ. Performed the experiments: JT NB. Analyzed the data: JT YTL VZ. Wrote the paper: JT YTL HS NB VZ.