The prospect of transplanting cells and tissues without the risk of immune rejection or the
need for powerful immunosuppressive drugs is the 'holy grail'of transplantation medicine …

The number of wildlife-vehicle collisions has an obvious value in estimating the direct effects
of roads on wildlife, ie mortality due to vehicle collisions. Given the nature of the data …

Transmissible cancers are infectious parasitic clones that metastasize to new hosts, living
past the death of the founder animal in which the cancer initiated. We investigated the …

Transmissible cancers are malignant cell lineages that spread clonally between individuals.
Several such cancers, termed bivalve transmissible neoplasia (BTN), induce leukemia-like …

Tasmanian devils have spawned two transmissible cancer lineages, named devil facial
tumor 1 (DFT1) and devil facial tumor 2 (DFT2). We investigated the genetic diversity and …

Conservation initiatives are now more crucial than ever—over a million plant and animal
species are at risk of extinction over the coming decades. The genetic management of …

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 …

Most cancers arise from oncogenic changes in the genomes of somatic cells, and while the
cells may migrate by metastasis, they remain within that single individual. Natural …

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

Infectious diseases are strong drivers of wildlife population dynamics, however, empirical
analyses from the early stages of pathogen emergence are rare. Tasmanian devil facial …