About the Authors

Martin W. Hahn

martin.hahn@oeaw.ac.at

Affiliation Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria

Thomas Scheuerl

Affiliation Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria

Jitka Jezberová

Affiliations Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the AS CR, v.v.i., České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Ulrike Koll

Affiliation Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria

Jan Jezbera

Affiliations Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the AS CR, v.v.i., České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Karel Šimek

Affiliation Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the AS CR, v.v.i., České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Claudia Vannini

Affiliation Biology Department, Protistology-Zoology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Giulio Petroni

Affiliation Biology Department, Protistology-Zoology Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Qinglong L. Wu

Affiliations Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MWH TS J. Jezberova J. Jezbera KŠ. Performed the experiments: TS UK J. Jezberova J. Jezbera KS QLW MWH. Analyzed the data: MWH TS J. Jezberova J. Jezbera KŠ CV GP. Wrote the paper: MWH KŠ J. Jezbera J. Jezberova.