Transmissible tumours, while rare, present a fascinating opportunity to examine the
evolutionary dynamics of cancer as both an infectious agent and an exotic, invasive species …

Although cancer rarely acts as an infectious disease, a recently emerged transmissible
cancer in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) is virtually 100% fatal. Devil facial tumour …

Clonally transmissible cancers are somatic cell lineages that are spread between
individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. There are only three known naturally …

Naturally transmissible tumours can emerge when a tumour cell gains the ability to pass as
an infectious allograft between individuals. The ability of these tumours to colonize a new …

Monitoring the response of wild mammal populations to threatening processes is
fundamental to effective conservation management. This is especially true for infectious …

The T asmanian devil is threatened with extinction by devil facial tumour disease (DFTD), a
unique infectious cancer in which the tumour cells themselves, which derive from a single …

Ecological and evolutionary concepts have been widely adopted to understand host–
pathogen dynamics, and more recently, integrated into wildlife disease management …

Maintenance of adaptive genetic variation has long been a goal of management of natural
populations, but only recently have genomic tools allowed identification of specific loci …

Conservation breeding programs aim to maintain 90% wild genetic diversity, but rarely
assess functional diversity. Here, we compare both genome-wide and functional diversity (in …

Devil facial tumour 1 (DFT1) is a transmissible cancer clone endangering the Tasmanian
devil. The expansion of DFT1 across Tasmania has been documented, but little is known of …