About the Authors

Vitaly V. Ganusov

vitaly.ganusov@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel L. Barber

Affiliation National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rob J. De Boer

Affiliation Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VVG RJDB. Performed the experiments: VVG. Analyzed the data: VVG RJDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DLB. Wrote the paper: VVG RJDB.