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Evolutionary genetics

the proposal by Doolittle that eukaryotes steadily took up bacterial genes from food organisms, a ratchet that explains bacterial genes in nuclear genomes.

In evolutionary genetics, you are what you eat hypothesis refers to the proposal by Doolittle that eukaryotes steadily took up bacterial genes from food organisms, a ratchet that explains bacterial genes in nuclear genomes. This meaning comes from Ford Doolittle (1998) in Trends in Genetics.[1]

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  1. Ford Doolittle, W. (1998). You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes. Trends in Genetics, 14(8), 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9525(98)01494-2

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