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Wei Li1, Jun He2, Jun Chen2

  • 1Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Donghu South Road 7, Wuhan 430072, China; Changchun University of Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China.

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