Mitochondrial genetic diversity, selection and recombination in a canine transmissible cancer

Canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT) is a clonally transmissible cancer that originated approximately 11,000 years ago and affects dogs worldwide. Despite the clonal origin of the CTVT nuclear genome, CTVT mitochondrial genomes (mtDNAs) have been acquired by periodic capture from transient ho...

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Main Authors: Andrea Strakova, Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Guo-Dong Wang, Ting-Ting Yin, Ilona Airikkala-Otter, Janice L Allen, Karen M Allum, Leontine Bansse-Issa, Jocelyn L Bisson, Artemio Castillo Domracheva, Karina F de Castro, Anne M Corrigan, Hugh R Cran, Jane T Crawford, Stephen M Cutter, Laura Delgadillo Keenan, Edward M Donelan, Ibikunle A Faramade, Erika Flores Reynoso, Eleni Fotopoulou, Skye N Fruean, Fanny Gallardo-Arrieta, Olga Glebova, Rodrigo F Häfelin Manrique, Joaquim JGP Henriques, Natalia Ignatenko, Debbie Koenig, Marta Lanza-Perea, Remo Lobetti, Adriana M Lopez Quintana, Thibault Losfelt, Gabriele Marino, Inigo Martincorena, Simón Martínez Castañeda, Mayra F Martínez-López, Michael Meyer, Berna Nakanwagi, Andrigo B De Nardi, Winifred Neunzig, Sally J Nixon, Marsden M Onsare, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco, Maria C Peleteiro, Ruth J Pye, John F Reece, Jose Rojas Gutierrez, Haleema Sadia, Sheila K Schmeling, Olga Shamanova, Richard K Ssuna, Audrey E Steenland-Smit, Alla Svitich, Ismail Thoya Ngoka, Bogdan A Vițălaru, Anna P de Vos, Johan P de Vos, Oliver Walkinton, David C Wedge, Alvaro S Wehrle-Martinez, Mirjam G van der Wel, Sophie AE Widdowson, Elizabeth P Murchison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-05-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/14552