About the Authors

Enrique Balleza

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla

Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, San Nicolás de Los Garza, México

Alvaro Chaos

Affiliation Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, San Nicolás de Los Garza, México

Stuart Kauffman

Affiliation Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ilya Shmulevich

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Maximino Aldana

max@fis.unam.mx

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK MA EB IS. Performed the experiments: EA. Analyzed the data: MA EB EA AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB EA AC IS. Wrote the paper: MA EB.