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SUMMARY:Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils - Dr E
 lizabeth Murchison
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CONTACT:Emily Boyd
DESCRIPTION:Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) and canine transm
 issible venereal tumour (CTVT) are the only two known naturally occurring 
 clonally transmissible cancers. These are cancers that can be transmitted 
 between individuals by the physical transfer of living cancer cells. Thus 
 DFTD and CTVT are long-lived somatic cell lineages that each first origina
 ted once as cancers in single individuals but that have now spread through
  their respective host populations as parasitic clonal cell lineages. We a
 re using genetics to analyse the origin and evolution of these diseases. C
 lonally transmissible cancers are a poorly understood type of infectious p
 athogen\; although there are only two known diseases of this type\, such d
 iseases can emerge rapidly and have disastrous implications for species co
 nservation. 
LOCATION:MR4\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambr
 idge
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