About the Authors

Inbal Hecht

inbal.hecht@gmail.com (IH); rappel@physics.ucsd.edu (WJR)

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Monica L. Skoge

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

Pascale G. Charest

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

Eshel Ben-Jacob

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Richard A. Firtel

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

William F. Loomis

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

Herbert Levine

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

Wouter-Jan Rappel

inbal.hecht@gmail.com (IH); rappel@physics.ucsd.edu (WJR)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IH MLS PGC WFL. Performed the experiments: MLS PGC. Analyzed the data: IH MLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IH EBJ RAF WFL HL WJR. Wrote the paper: IH HL WJR.