Microscopic chalk discs in oceans play a key role in earth’s carbon cycle by propagating viruses

A team of scientists studying virus-host interactions of a globally abundant, armor-plated marine algae, Emiliania huxleyi, has found that the circular, chalk plates the algae produce can act as catalysts for viral infection, which has vast consequences for trillions of microscopic oceanic creatures and the global carbon cycle.

Source: ScienceDaily.com