Evolution in a transmissible cancer: A study of the chromosomal changes in devil facial tumor (DFT) as it spreads through the wild Tasmanian devil population

Cancer Genetics

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 101-112

  Pearse, Anne Maree ^a   Swift, Kate ^a   Hodson, Pamela ^a   Hua, Bobby ^a   McCallum, Hamish ^b   Pyecroft, Stephen ^a   Taylor, Robyn ^a   Eldridge, Mark D B ^c   Belov, Katherine ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer evolution; Devil facial tumor (DFT); Devil facial tumor disease (DFTD); Disease transmission; Muller's ratchet; Tasmanian devils

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVIL FACIAL TUMOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE MUTATION; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; TUMOR CELL LINE; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CLONAL EVOLUTION; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPING; MARSUPIALIA; TASMANIA;

DASYURIDAE; DASYURUS; METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 84860261981     PISSN: 22107762     EISSN: 22107770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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