Affiliations
- State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, School of
Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University,
Shanghai 200241, China.
- School of Physics and Astronomy & Institute of Natural Sciences,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecosystem Protection and
Restoration, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui
University, Hefei 230601, China.
- Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology,
Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration &
Center for Global Change and Ecological Forecasting, School of
Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University,
Shanghai 200241, China.
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email:
qxliu@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn
Author contributions: Q.-X. L. designed research; W.-S. H. and
M. H. performed research; W.-S. H. and H. P. Z. contributed new analyzed
data; W.-S. H. and F. Z. contributed computer code; W.V. contributed the
experimental diatom strains and experimental details; All authors
contributed substantially to discussion of the content, wrote the
article and reviewed and edited the manuscript before submission.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no
competing interests.
Data and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate
the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the
supplementary Materials. The code to reproduce the results of this study
is available on the publicly repository Dryad, DOI:
10.5061/dryad.547d7wm41.
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