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Transmissible Cancers in an Evolutionary Perspective.
Review in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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29 citing papers in PubMed.
- Melanoma and Other Melanistic Lesions in Brown Bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus From Waterbodies in the Northeastern United States and Canada: Identification of Risk Factors.Journal of fish diseases · 2026Article
- Wildlife Trade and Genetic Basis of Disease Susceptibility: A Review.International journal of immunogenetics · 2026Review
- Epidemiological determinants of canine transmissible venereal tumor in Northeastern Brazil: Insights from a retrospective case-control analysis.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- External immune sentinels in the seawater ecosystem: the specialization of bivalve hemocytes.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
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- Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor: Anatomical Locations, Chemotherapy Response, and Epidemiological Aspects at a Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Brazil (2012-2022).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Ecology of vertical tumor transmission in the freshwater cnidarian Hydra oligactis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancer.The Journal of animal ecology · 2024Review
- Evolution of transmissible cancers: An adaptive, plastic strategy of selfish genetic elements?iScience · 2024Review
- The complex effects of modern oncogenic environments on the fitness, evolution and conservation of wildlife species.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Divergent DNA methylation patterns and gene expression in MYC andVeterinary world · 2024Article
- Microbial Therapy and Breast Cancer Management: Exploring Mechanisms, Clinical Efficacy, and Integration within the One Health Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- A new perspective on tumor progression: Evolution via selection for function.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Article
- Transcriptomics of mussel transmissible cancer MtrBTN2 suggests accumulation of multiple cancer traits and oncogenic pathways shared among bilaterians.Open biology · 2023Article
- The paradox of cooperation among selfish cancer cells.Evolutionary applications · 2023Review
- Bridging clinic and wildlife care with AI-powered pan-species computational pathology.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Transmissible cancer and longitudinal telomere dynamics in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii).Molecular ecology · 2022Article
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- Formation of benign tumors by stem cell deregulation.PLoS genetics · 2022Review
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12 authors.
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Abstract
Inter-individual transmission of cancer cells represents an intriguing and unexplored host-pathogen system, with significant ecological and evolutionary ramifications. The pathogen consists of clonal malignant cell lines that spread horizontally as allografts and/or xenografts. Although only nine transmissible cancer lineages in eight host species from both terrestrial and marine environments have been investigated, they exhibit evolutionary dynamics that may provide novel insights into tumor-host interactions particularly in the formation of metastases. Here we present an overview of known transmissible cancers, discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions for cancer transmission, and provide a comprehensive review on the evolutionary dynamics between transmissible cancers and their hosts.
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