“Andrew Storfer, WSU professor of biology, and an international team of scientists discovered that two regions in the genomes of Australia’s iconic marsupials are changing in response to the rapid spread of devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), a nearly 100 percent fatal and transmissible cancer first detected in 1996.”
Epstein, B., Jones, M., Hamede, R. et al. Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils. Nat Commun 7, 12684 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12684
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