About the Authors

Lei Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Helen K. Alexander

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Balazs Bogos

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Daniel J. Kiviet

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Martin Ackermann

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

Affiliations Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

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

seb@env.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.