ReviewJournal of biological research (Thessalonike, Greece)2020
The occurrence of cancer in vertebrates: a mini review.
Review in Journal of biological research (Thessalonike, Greece), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Ancient Diseases in Vertebrates: Tumours through the Ages.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates.Research square · 2023Article
- Bridging clinic and wildlife care with AI-powered pan-species computational pathology.Nature communications · 2023Article
- A phylogenetic review of cancer resistance highlights evolutionary solutions to Peto's Paradox.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
- Why Has the Ability to Regenerate Following CNS Injury Been Repeatedly Lost Over the Course of Evolution?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cancer, Retrogenes, and Evolution.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Alternative Animal Models of Aging Research.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Review
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Neoplasia is a multilevel condition caused by irregularities over the genome, which can lead to a fatal result. To fully understand this phenomenon, an evolutionary challenge has risen during the last decades, away from human limits, driving the scientific quest into the wild life. The study of wild vertebrate populations in their natural habitats has shown that cancer is rather prominent. Thus, the diversity of vertebrates reported with some form of neoplasia is quite scattered through a variety of habitats. However, some species constitute exceptions by exhibiting cancer-protective features, driven by certain loci in their DNA. It is obvious that from an evolutionary standpoint, the incidence of cancer in different taxa is nowadays studied by seeking for patterns and their roots. The main purpose of the evolutionary approach is no other than to answer a fundamental question: Could cancer be ultimately regarded as another evolutionary force conducive to the formation or shaping-up of species?
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