Emiliania huxleyi has more going for it than just a beautiful name. Despite being only a few millionths of a millimeter in size - about a tenth of the thickness of a human hair - this unicellular alga ...

Microscopic plant-like organisms called phytoplankton support the diversity of life in the ocean. Scientists now report that one species, Emiliania huxleyi, and a virus closely associated with it, ...

The uptake of fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean increases seawater acidity and causes a decline in carbonate ion concentrations. This process, termed ocean acidification, makes it ...

The single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans is able to simultaneously adapt to rising water temperatures and ocean acidification through evolution. A unique long-term experiment ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1322-1336 (15 pages) Ongoing ocean warming and acidification are tied to the rapid accumulation of human-induced carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the ...

Culture experiments were used to assess the applicability of Emiliania huxleyi coccolith morphology as a palaeo–sea-surface salinity (SSS) proxy. Coccolith morphology was dependent on salinity over a ...

Swap the Douglas firs for palm trees this summer and Hood Canal would look a bit like the Caribbean. A phytoplankton bloom that began in mid-July has turned the water in Hood Canal a brilliant shade ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University and the University of Tsukuba showed that coccolith disks made of calcium carbonate in Emiliania huxleyi, one of the promising biomass resources, potentially ...

The photosynthesizing plankton Emiliania huxleyi has a dramatic relationship with its bacterial frenemies. These duplicitous bugs help E. huxleyi in exchange for nutrients until it becomes more ...

A single-celled phytoplankton that forms enormous blooms in the ocean and plays a vital role in regulating the carbon cycle has an unusual defense against a virus: When the virus appears, the microbe ...

A Rutgers-led 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 ...