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climate change, primarily due to the weakening of marine hosts. Despite its harmful effects, V. harveyi plays a beneficial role in nutrient cycling by using chitin -- a building block of marine invertebrate exoskeletons -- as a carbon source. It does so by breaking chitin down into simpler molecules that are used and eventually returned to the aquatic system to be taken up by other organisms. This species is also thought to be the cause of the milky seas effect, in which,

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