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Published online 15 January 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.30
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Fish are crucial in oceanic carbon cycle
Chemistry models need to incorporate new discovery.
Fish may play a more important role in the marine carbon cycle than previously thought, a new study shows. Researchers have found that fish excrete prodigious amounts of a mineral, calcium carbonate, that had been thought to come almost exclusively from marine plankton such as shelled algae.
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