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Multiple lineages of transmissible neoplasia in the basket cockle ( <i>C. nuttallii</i> ) with repeated horizontal transfer of mitochondrial DNA
2023-10-12
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Transmissible cancers are clonal lineages of neoplastic cells able to infect multiple hosts, spreading through populations in the environment as an infectious disease. Transmissible cancers have been identified in Tasmanian devils, dogs, and bivalves. Several lineages of bivalve transmissible neoplasias (BTN) have been identified in multiple bivalve species. In 2019 in Puget Sound, Washington, U...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8eccf2aa-d992-573d-941c-b7202ae4719b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.10.11.561945
