Data availability

The data that support the plots in this paper and other findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request. The scientific colour maps developed by Crameri et al. 67 are used in this study to prevent visual distortion of the data and exclusion of readers with colour vision deficiencies 68 . Source data are provided with this paper.

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