ReviewOncogene2008
Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils.
Review in Oncogene, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 158 citations in OpenAlex.
- Vincristine chemotherapy trials and pharmacokinetics in tasmanian devils with tasmanian devil facial tumor disease.PloS one · 2013Trial
- Beyond Mice and Men: Alternative Vertebrate and Invertebrate Models in Cancer Biology.Annual review of cancer biology · 2026Article
- Case Report: Glioblastoma in cohabiting partners: a molecularly characterized temporal cluster.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Horizontal transfer of nuclear DNA in transmissible cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Micro-to multi-chimerism: the multiple facets of a singular phenomenon.Seminars in immunopathology · 2025Review
- Evolution of transmissible cancers: An adaptive, plastic strategy of selfish genetic elements?iScience · 2024Review
- Unravelling epigenetic mechanisms in Cerastoderma edule genome: a comparison of healthy and neoplastic cockles.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2024Article
- Bridging clinic and wildlife care with AI-powered pan-species computational pathology.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life?PloS one · 2023Article
- Population genetics of clonally transmissible cancers.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Review
- Hallmarks of cancer and hallmarks of aging.Aging · 2022Article
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- First description of a widespread Mytilus trossulus-derived bivalve transmissible cancer lineage in M. trossulus itself.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Genotype data not consistent with clonal transmission of sea turtle fibropapillomatosis or goldfish schwannoma.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
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- Comparative Oncology: New Insights into an Ancient Disease.iScience · 2020Review
- Transmissible Cancers in an Evolutionary Perspective.iScience · 2020Review
- Curse of the devil: molecular insights into the emergence of transmissible cancers in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii).Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2020Review
- Contemporary Demographic Reconstruction Methods Are Robust to Genome Assembly Quality: A Case Study in Tasmanian Devils.Molecular biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Transmissible Cancers and Immune Downregulation in Tasmanian Devil (Comparative medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) and canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) are the only known naturally occurring clonally transmissible cancers. These cancers are transmitted by the physical transfer of viable tumor cells that can be transplanted across histocompatibility barriers into unrelated hosts. Despite their common etiology, DFTD and CTVT have evolved independently and have unique life histories and host adaptations. DFTD is a recently emerged aggressive facial tumor that is threatening the Tasmanian devil with extinction. CTVT is a sexually transmitted tumor of dogs that has a worldwide distribution and that probably arose thousands of years ago. By contrasting the biology, molecular genetics and immunology of these two unusual cancers, I highlight the common and unique features of clonally transmissible cancers, and discuss the implications of clonally transmissible cancers for host-pathogen evolution.
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