Weird genotypes? Don't discard them, transmissible cancer could be an explanation

Transmissible cancers, are they more common than thought?

(2016) Beata Ujvari et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The mass mortality of blue mussels (Mytilus spp.) from the Atlantic coast of France is associated with heavy genomic abnormalities as evidenced by flow cytometry

(2016) Abdellah Benabdelmouna et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Population genomics of sexual and asexual lineages in fissiparous ribbon worms (Lineus, Nemertea): hybridization, polyploidy and the Meselson effect

(2016) S. L. Ament-Velásquez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Widespread transmission of independent cancer lineages within multiple bivalve species

(2016) Michael J. Metzger et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) Andrea Strakova et al.   eLife

Horizontal Transmission of Clonal Cancer Cells Causes Leukemia in Soft-Shell Clams

(2015) Michael J. Metzger et al.   CELL

A second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils

(2015) Ruth J. Pye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity

(2014) J. Romiguier et al.   NATURE

Patterns of DNA Barcode Variation in Canadian Marine Molluscs

(2014) Kara K.S. Layton et al.   PLoS One

Mitochondrial Capture by a Transmissible Cancer

(2011) C. A. Rebbeck et al.   SCIENCE

ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF A TRANSMISSIBLE CANCER

(2009) Clare A. Rebbeck et al.   EVOLUTION