Canine transmissible venereal tumour: the contagious cancer that conquered the world

Update: 2016-05-17

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Genetics of a canine transmissible tumour show how the world’s oldest cancer “metastasised” through the global dog population – and captured, maintained and rearranged its mitochondrial DNA along the way.

Strakova et al. eLife 2016;5:e14552

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http://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/

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Canine transmissible venereal tumour: the contagious cancer that conquered the world

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Canine transmissible venereal tumour: the contagious cancer that conquered the world

Cedric Bousquet

Canine transmissible venereal tumour: the contagious cancer that conquered the world