About the Authors

Peter Bakke

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Nick Carney

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Will DeLoache

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Mary Gearing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Kjeld Ingvorsen

Affiliation Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Matt Lotz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Jay McNair

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Pallavi Penumetcha

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Samantha Simpson

Affiliations Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Laura Voss

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Max Win

Affiliations Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Laurie J. Heyer

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

A. Malcolm Campbell

macampbell@davidson.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMC. Performed the experiments: PB NC WD MG KI ML JM PP SS LV MW. Analyzed the data: PB NC WD MG KI ML JM PP SS LV MW LJH AMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WD KI JM SS MW LJH. Wrote the paper: PB PP AMC.