Population genetics of clonally transmissible cancers

M Ní Leathlobhair, RE Lenski - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Populations of cancer cells are subject to the same core evolutionary processes as
asexually reproducing, unicellular organisms. Transmissible cancers are particularly striking …

Transmissible cancers in an evolutionary perspective

AM Dujon, RA Gatenby, G Bramwell, N MacDonald… - IScience, 2020 - cell.com
Inter-individual transmission of cancer cells represents an intriguing and unexplored host-
pathogen system, with significant ecological and evolutionary ramifications. The pathogen …

The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

MR Stammnitz, K Gori, YM Kwon, E Harry, FJ Martin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
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 …

Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread

CX Cunningham, S Comte, H McCallum… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases are strong drivers of wildlife population dynamics, however, empirical
analyses from the early stages of pathogen emergence are rare. Tasmanian devil facial …

[图书][B] Population genetics and microevolutionary theory

AR Templeton - 2021 - books.google.com
Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory Explore the fundamentals of the
biological implications of population genetic theory In the newly revised Second Edition of …

The ecology and evolution of wildlife cancers: Applications for management and conservation

R Hamede, R Owen, H Siddle, S Peck… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological and evolutionary concepts have been widely adopted to understand host–
pathogen dynamics, and more recently, integrated into wildlife disease management …

Evolution and lineage dynamics of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils

YM Kwon, K Gori, N Park, N Potts, K Swift, J Wang… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Classical Sorting Algorithms as a Model of Morphogenesis: self-sorting arrays reveal unexpected competencies in a minimal model of basal intelligence

T Zhang, A Goldstein, M Levin - Adaptive Behavior, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The Diverse Intelligence research seeks to understand commonalities in behavioral
competencies across a wide range of implementations. Especially interesting are simple …

Group phenotypic composition in cancer

JP Capp, J DeGregori, AM Nedelcu, AM Dujon… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Although individual cancer cells are generally considered the Darwinian units of selection in
malignant populations, they frequently act as members of groups where fitness of the group …

An oral bait vaccination approach for the Tasmanian devil facial tumor diseases

AS Flies, EJ Flies, S Fox, A Gilbert… - Expert review of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is the largest extant
carnivorous marsupial. Since 1996, its population has declined by 77% primarily due to a …