About the Authors

Lin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Wang, Lin Hou

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Lin Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Wang, Lin Hou

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Minping Qian

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Minghua Deng

dengmh@pku.edu.cn

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, Center for Statistical Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW MQ MD. Performed the experiments: LW LH. Analyzed the data: LW LH. Wrote the paper: LW LH MD.