Acknowledgements
We thank Subodh Sharma for obtaining the fieldwork permit from Kathmandu
University. We are thankful to Xianfu Li and Lu Tan for their help with
the fieldwork permit. We thank Jaime R. Garcia Marquez for providing
valuable advice in species distribution modelling. We thank Oskar
Schröder, Jacqueline Heckenhauer, and Shenglin Liu for giving
professional suggestions on data analyses, results interpretation and
comments on the manuscript. We thank Angelika Losey Kurthen, Jiatang Li,
and a number of Nepalese students for supporting our fieldwork.
This research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),
grant number PA 1617/2‐1 and PA 1617/2‐2 awarded to SUP, JA 1827/6-2
awarded to SCJ, DO 1880/3-2 to SD, and AF 1117/1-2 awarded to AF.
Reference genome sequencing was supported through the
LOEWE–“Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer
Exzellenz” of Hesse’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the
Arts. We acknowledge funding through German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF grant 033W034A). SD acknowledges funding by
the Leibniz-Competition (J45/2018). SCJ acknowledges funding through the
Leibniz Competition project “Freshwater Megafauna
Futures”.