[HTML][HTML] Tasmanian devils with contagious cancer exhibit a constricted T-cell repertoire diversity

Y Cheng, M Makara, E Peel, S Fox… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is threatened by a contagious cancer,
known as Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD). A highly diverse T-cell receptor (TCR) …

[HTML][HTML] Significant decline in anticancer immune capacity during puberty in the Tasmanian devil

Y Cheng, K Heasman, S Peck, E Peel, RM Gooley… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are at risk of extinction in the wild due to Devil Facial
Tumour Disease (DFTD), a rare contagious cancer. The prevalence of DFTD differs by age …

Demonstration of immune responses against devil facial tumour disease in wild Tasmanian devils

R Pye, R Hamede, HV Siddle, A Caldwell… - Biology …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) is a recently emerged fatal transmissible cancer
decimating the wild population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). Biting transmits …

[HTML][HTML] The newly-arisen Devil facial tumour disease 2 (DFT2) reveals a mechanism for the emergence of a contagious cancer

A Caldwell, R Coleby, C Tovar, MR Stammnitz… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Devil Facial Tumour 2 (DFT2) is a recently discovered contagious cancer circulating in the
Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), a species which already harbours a more …

Low major histocompatibility complex diversity in the Tasmanian devil predates European settlement and may explain susceptibility to disease epidemics

K Morris, JJ Austin, K Belov - Biology letters, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is at risk of extinction owing to the emergence of
a contagious cancer known as devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). The emergence and …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils

B Epstein, M Jones, R Hamede, S Hendricks… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Immunology of a transmissible cancer spreading among Tasmanian devils

GM Woods, LJ Howson, GK Brown, C Tovar… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.aai.org
Devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) is a transmissible cancer that has killed most of the
Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrissii) population. Since the first case appeared in the mid …

Transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils: localized lineage replacement and host population response

RK Hamede, AM Pearse, K Swift… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) is a clonally transmissible cancer threatening
the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) with extinction. Live cancer cells are the infectious …

Transmissible cancer influences immune gene expression in an endangered marsupial, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)

N Raven, M Klaassen, T Madsen, F Thomas… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the effects of wildlife diseases on populations requires insight into local
environmental conditions, host defence mechanisms, host life‐history trade‐offs, pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Antigen-presenting genes and genomic copy number variations in the Tasmanian devil MHC

Y Cheng, A Stuart, K Morris, R Taylor, H Siddle… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Background The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is currently under threat of
extinction due to an unusual fatal contagious cancer called Devil Facial Tumour Disease …