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👉 Bourret's hypothesis is a theory proposed by French biochemist Jean-Baptiste Bourret in 1859 that suggests that the presence of bacteria on the surface of marine organisms can be used as a means to detect and track these organisms. The idea was initially based on the observation that some marine animals, such as starfish, could be observed to have colonies of bacteria on their shells.

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