{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Trainic M"],"funding":["De Botton Center for Marine Science","Minerva Foundation"],"pagination":["327-335"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6137326"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6"],"pubmed_abstract":["Sea spray aerosols (SSA), have a profound effect on the climate; however, the contribution of oceanic microbial activity to SSA is not fully established. We assessed aerosolization of the calcite units (coccoliths) that compose the exoskeleton of the cosmopolitan bloom-forming coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi. Airborne coccolith emission occurs in steady-state conditions and increases by an order of magnitude during E. huxleyi infection by E. huxleyi virus (EhV). Airborne to seawater coccolith ratio is 1:10<sup>8</sup>, providing estimation of airborne concentrations from seawater concentrations. The coccoliths' unique aerodynamic structure yields a characteristic settling velocity of ∼0.01 cm s<sup>-1</sup>, ∼25 times slower than average sea salt particles, resulting in coccolith fracti"],"journal":["iScience"],"pubmed_title":["Infection Dynamics of a Bloom-Forming Alga and Its Virus Determine Airborne Coccolith Emission from Seawater."],"pmcid":["PMC6137326"],"funding_grant_id":["712287"],"pubmed_authors":["Rudich Y","Koren I","Sharoni S","Segev L","Trainic M","Frada M","Vardi A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Infection Dynamics of a Bloom-Forming Alga and Its Virus Determine Airborne Coccolith Emission from Seawater.","description":"Sea spray aerosols (SSA), have a profound effect on the climate; however, the contribution of oceanic microbial activity to SSA is not fully established. We assessed aerosolization of the calcite units (coccoliths) that compose the exoskeleton of the cosmopolitan bloom-forming coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi. Airborne coccolith emission occurs in steady-state conditions and increases by an order of magnitude during E. huxleyi infection by E. huxleyi virus (EhV). Airborne to seawater coccolith ratio is 1:10<sup>8</sup>, providing estimation of airborne concentrations from seawater concentrations. The coccoliths' unique aerodynamic structure yields a characteristic settling velocity of ∼0.01 cm s<sup>-1</sup>, ∼25 times slower than average sea salt particles, resulting in coccolith fracti","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Aug","modification":"2025-04-04T23:36:32.171Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:56:39Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6137326","cross_references":{"pubmed":["30240623"],"doi":["10.1016/j.isci.2018.07.017"]}}