About the Authors

Lina Meinecke

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Meinecke, Praveer P. Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Praveer P. Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Meinecke, Praveer P. Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Huijing Du

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States of America

Lei Zhang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University, Beijing, China, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Qing Nie

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

qnie@math.uci.edu (QN); tschilli@uci.edu (TFS)

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Thomas F. Schilling

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

qnie@math.uci.edu (QN); tschilli@uci.edu (TFS)

Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.