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 …

Symbioses are major drivers of organismal diversification and phenotypic innovation.
However, how long-term symbioses shape whole genome evolution in metazoans is still …

The common cockle is a valuable bivalve species inhabiting the Atlantic European coasts.
The parasite Marteilia cochillia has devastated cockle beds in the southern Galician (NW …

Evolutionary theory predicts that accumulation of deleterious mutations in asexually
reproducing organisms should lead to genomic decay. Clonally reproducing cell lines, ie …

Cancer is a multifaceted genetic disease characterized by the acquisition of several
essential hallmarks. Notably, certain cancers exhibit horizontal transmissibility, observed …

Transmissible cancers are clonal lineages of neoplastic cells able to infect multiple hosts,
spreading through populations in the environment as an infectious disease. Transmissible …

Transmissible cancers are a rare phenomenon in which cancer cells are passed between
individuals, leading to the development of neoplasia in the host organism. Transmissible …

Although somatic cell genomes are usually entirely clonally inherited, nuclear DNA
exchange between cells of an organism can occur sporadically by cell fusion, phagocytosis …

Transmissible cancers are unique instances in which cancer cells escape their original host
and spread through a population as a clonal lineage, documented in Tasmanian Devils …

Bilaterian mitochondrial genomes are generally of conserved size and gene content,
typically ranging from 14 to 20 kb and coding 37 genes. However, the major exception to this …