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transmissible cancer: a standalone construct

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transmissiblecancer1 CONSTRUCTTransmissible cancerMETZGER · WILDLIFE DISEASE

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Wildlife disease ecology

cancer whose living tumour cells pass between individuals as an infectious agent, as in Tasmanian devils, dogs and bivalves.

In wildlife disease ecology, transmissible cancer refers to cancer whose living tumour cells pass between individuals as an infectious agent, as in Tasmanian devils, dogs and bivalves. This meaning comes from Metzger (2016) in PLOS Pathogens.[1]

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  1. Metzger, M. J., & Goff, S. P. (2016). A Sixth Modality of Infectious Disease: Contagious Cancer from Devils to Clams and Beyond. PLOS Pathogens, 12(10), e1005904. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005904

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