Acknowledgements
We thank Xiaokai Fan (Ocean University of China, China) for collecting
distribution data of Thalassia hemprichii and Jinxin Zhou
(University of Tokyo, Japan) for figure illustration. We further thank
Dr Aussanee Meekaew (Shizuoka University, Japan) for kindly providing us
with the nice pictures of Thalassia hemprichii in Figure 2. This
study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China
(31971395, 41761144057), Thailand Research Fund (RDG6130002), the
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the projects
UID/Multi/04326/2019 and PTDC/BIA-CBI/6515/2020 and the transitional
norm -DL57/2016/CP1361/CT0035 to JA. SM acknowledges support from the
European commission (program H2020-MSCA-IF-2019; grant award: 882221).
ZZ and MY acknowledge the financial support from the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
(18K05780). JMK acknowledges support from the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers
program and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate
University.