Identification of candidate genes for devil facial tumour disease tumourigenesis

Abstract Devil facial tumour (DFT) disease, a transmissible cancer where the infectious agent is the tumour itself, has caused a dramatic decrease in Tasmanian devil numbers in the wild. The purpose of this study was to take a candidate gene/pathway approach to identify potentially perturbed genes o...

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Main Authors: Robyn L. Taylor, Yiru Zhang, Jennifer P. Schöning, Janine E. Deakin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08908-9