Anthropogenic selection enhances cancer evolution in Tasmanian devil tumours

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 260-265

  Ujvari, Beata ^a   Pearse, Anne Maree ^b   Swift, Kate ^b   Hodson, Pamela ^b   Hua, Bobby ^b   Pyecroft, Stephen ^b,c   Taylor, Robyn ^b   Hamede, Rodrigo ^d   Jones, Menna ^d   Belov, Katherine ^a   Madsen, Thomas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Primary Industries   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer evolution; Genomic decay; Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; Tetraploidy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892967235     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12117     Document Type: Article

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