ReviewNature ecology & evolution2022
Population genetics of clonally transmissible cancers.
Review in Nature ecology & evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Convergence for Inactivation of TGFβ Signaling Is a Common Feature of Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.Cancer discovery · 2026Article
- Antitumoral efficacy of silver nanoparticles reduced with β-D-glucose on a canine transmissible venereal tumor cell line.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Gene expression in soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) transmissible cancer reveals survival mechanisms during host infection and seawater transfer.PLoS genetics · 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
- Divergent DNA methylation patterns and gene expression in MYC andVeterinary world · 2024Article
- Intergenomic signatures of coevolution between Tasmanian devils and an infectious cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The devil is in the detail.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Centuries of genome instability and evolution in soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, bivalve transmissible neoplasia.Nature cancer · 2023Article
- The Clinical Significance of Genetic Variation in Ovarian Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Defining clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential: evolutionary dynamics and detection under aging and inflammation.Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies · 2023Review
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Abstract
Populations of cancer cells are subject to the same core evolutionary processes as asexually reproducing, unicellular organisms. Transmissible cancers are particularly striking examples of these processes. These unusual cancers are clonal lineages that can spread through populations via physical transfer of living cancer cells from one host individual to another, and they have achieved long-term success in the colonization of at least eight different host species. Population genetic theory provides a useful framework for understanding the shift from a multicellular sexual animal into a unicellular asexual clone and its long-term effects on the genomes of these cancers. In this Review, we consider recent findings from transmissible cancer research with the goals of developing an evolutionarily informed perspective on transmissible cancers, examining possible implications for their long-term fate and identifying areas for future research on these exceptional lineages.
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