Hidden viruses reshape one of Earth’s largest carbon systems, study finds

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Viruses play a far more active role in Earth’s carbon cycle than previously understood, according to new research that reveals how they infect and control microbes responsible for carbon production in some of the planet’s largest, darkest ecosystems.

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