VIRUSES INFECT COPEPODS which feed on phytoplankton. This was only described in 2013. “Marine free-floating plants called phytoplankton sequester about half of the carbon dioxide that is pulled from the atmosphere and fixed in plant cells during photosynthesis. Copepods play a key role in the process by consuming most of the oceans’ phytoplankton, which they defecate as pellets that sink to the ocean floor, thereby locking up atmospheric carbon for thousands of years.””
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022