About the Authors

Portia M. Mira

Affiliation School of Natural Science, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Kristina Crona

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Devin Greene

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Juan C. Meza

Affiliation School of Natural Science, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Bernd Sturmfels

Affiliation Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, and EECS, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Miriam Barlow

Miriam.barlow@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Natural Science, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMM MB BS JCM DG KC. Performed the experiments: PMM BS JCM. Analyzed the data: MB PMM BS KC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB BS JCM. Wrote the paper: MB PMM JCM BS KC DG.