About the Authors

David Champredon

champrd@math.mcmaster.ca

Affiliation School of Computational Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Steve Bellan

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Jonathan Dushoff

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC JD. Performed the experiments: DC JD. Analyzed the data: DC JD SEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC JD SEB. Wrote the paper: DC JD SEB.