Contagious cancer: Lessons from the devil and the dog

The tammar wallaby major histocompatibility complex shows evidence of past genomic instability

(2011) Hannah V Siddle et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Reduced Effect of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease at the Disease Front

(2011) RODRIGO HAMEDE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Innate immunity in transplant tolerance and rejection

(2011) Shaun P. Murphy et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The MHC, disease and selection

(2011) John Trowsdale   IMMUNOLOGY LETTERS

Immune recognition and rejection of allogeneic skin grafts

(2011) Gilles Benichou et al.   Immunotherapy

Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Markers in Conservation Biology

(2011) Beata Ujvari et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Allorecognition in the Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), an Endangered Marsupial Species with Limited Genetic Diversity

(2011) Alexandre Kreiss et al.   PLoS One

Natural Killer Cell Mediated Cytotoxic Responses in the Tasmanian Devil

(2011) Gabriella K. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New Options

(2011) Jianghui Wang et al.   PLoS One

Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered marsupial Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

(2011) W. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mitochondrial Capture by a Transmissible Cancer

(2011) C. A. Rebbeck et al.   SCIENCE

HLA antigen and NK cell activating ligand expression in malignant cells: a story of loss or acquisition

(2011) Michael Campoli et al.   Seminars in Immunopathology

Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development

(2011) Marilyn B Renfree et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Hydractinia Allodeterminant alr1 Resides in an Immunoglobulin Superfamily-like Gene Complex

(2010) Sabrina F.P. Rosa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Minor histocompatibility antigens: presentation principles, recognition logic and the potential for a healing hand

(2010) Charles T Spencer et al.   Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Evidence that disease-induced population decline changes genetic structure and alters dispersal patterns in the Tasmanian devil

(2010) S Lachish et al.   HEREDITY

The role of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in the spread of contagious cancers

(2010) Katherine Belov   MAMMALIAN GENOME

Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication

(2010) Bridgett M. vonHoldt et al.   NATURE

MHC gene copy number variation in Tasmanian devils: implications for the spread of a contagious cancer

(2010) H. V. Siddle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Tasmanian Devil Transcriptome Reveals Schwann Cell Origins of a Clonally Transmissible Cancer

(2010) E. P. Murchison et al.   SCIENCE

A Murine Xenograft Model for a Transmissible Cancer in Tasmanian Devils

(2010) A. Kreiss et al.   VETERINARY PATHOLOGY

Allorecognition and chimerism in an invertebrate model organism

(2010) Fadi G. Lakkis et al.   Organogenesis

Hatching time for monotreme immunology

(2009) Emily S. W. Wong et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Does reduced MHC diversity decrease viability of vertebrate populations?

(2009) Jacek Radwan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

MHC-linked and un-linked class I genes in the wallaby

(2009) Hannah V Siddle et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Testing the theory of immune selection in cancers that break the rules of transplantation

(2009) Ariberto Fassati et al.   CANCER IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY

Extensive conservation of genomic imbalances in canine transmissible venereal tumors (CTVT) detected by microarray-based CGH analysis

(2009) Rachael Thomas et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

A Hypervariable Invertebrate Allodeterminant

(2009) Matthew L. Nicotra et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sea squirts and immune tolerance

(2009) A. W. De Tomaso   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Contact networks in a wild Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population: using social network analysis to reveal seasonal variability in social behaviour and its implications for transmission of devil facial tumour disease

(2009) Rodrigo K. Hamede et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF A TRANSMISSIBLE CANCER

(2009) Clare A. Rebbeck et al.   EVOLUTION

Demography, disease and the devil: life-history changes in a disease-affected population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)

(2009) Shelly Lachish et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils

(2009) E P Murchison   ONCOGENE

Molecular mechanisms of allorecognition in a basal chordate

(2009) Tanya R. McKitrick et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

The humoral immune response of the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) against horse red blood cells

(2009) Alexandre Kreiss et al.   VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY

Interactions of host IL-6 and IFN-γ and cancer-derived TGF-β1 on MHC molecule expression during tumor spontaneous regression

(2008) Ya-Wen Hsiao et al.   CANCER IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY

HLA antigen changes in malignant cells: epigenetic mechanisms and biologic significance

(2008) M Campoli et al.   ONCOGENE

Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations

(2008) M. E. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology

(2008) Hamish McCallum   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Identification, characterization and expression of cathelicidin in the pouch young of tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

(2007) Kerry A. Daly et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY