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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Transmissible cancer"”.
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Origin, evolution, and global spread of a transmissible cancer clone
Clonally transmissible cancers are malignant cellular clones that spread between unrelated individuals by the physical transfer of living cancer cells. These clones can ‘metastasise’ through populations, having adapted to transmit across external environments and evade the host immune response. …
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Genome diversity and evolution in canine transmissible venereal tumour
The canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT) is a contagious cancer that is naturally transmitted between dogs by the allogeneic transfer of living cancer cells during coitus. CTVT first arose several thousand years ago and has been reported in dog populations worldwide. The goals of this Thesis …
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Genetics of transmissible cancers in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Transmissible cancers are clonal lineages that spread through populations via contagious cancer cells. Such epidemics have only ever been observed to affect two mammals in nature, yet two distinct clones known as devil facial tumour 1 (DFT1) and devil facial tumour 2 (DFT2) have arisen within …