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JohnFByers t1_ir9qx7w wrote

This has been going on for 2 billion years and the existence of gene transfer from mt to nucleus isn’t the point of the article.

Since we’re talking about a process that has lasted billions of years, there’s no particular worry at this point.

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Parazeit t1_ir9sc2s wrote

In some organisms the mitochondria has shifted the entirety of its genome into "host" DNA. Mitosomes and hydrogensomes are the result.

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