Open AccessTransmissible cancers, are they more common than thought?
Author(s) -
Ujvari Beata,
Gatenby Robert A.,
Thomas Frédéric
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
evolutionary applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 68
ISSN - 1752-4571
DOI - 10.1111/eva.12372
Subject(s) - biology , multicellular organism , cancer , evolutionary biology , transmission (telecommunications) , genetics , cell , electrical engineering , engineering
Although many cancers are associated with infectious agents (Ewald and Swain Ewald 2015), only four naturally occurring transmissible cancers have so far been identified in dogs, soft‐shell clams and Tasmanian devils (DFT1 and DFT2) (Pye et al. 2015). The recent discovery of DFT2 (Pye et al. 2015) provides an intriguing story to the evolution of transmissible cancers and poses several questions: