The mystery of cancer resistance: A revelation within nature

DD Trivedi, SK Dalai, SR Bakshi - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2023 - Springer
Cancer, a disease due to uncontrolled cell proliferation is as ancient as multicellular
organisms. A 255-million-years-old fossilized forerunner mammal gorgonopsian is probably …

International overview of sea turtle fibropapillomatosis: a survey of expert opinions and trends

J Whilde, N Mashkour, SA Koda… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Marine environments offer a wealth of opportunities to improve understanding
and treatment options for cancers, through insights into a range of fields from drug discovery …

The complex effects of modern oncogenic environments on the fitness, evolution and conservation of wildlife species

AM Dujon, B Ujvari, S Tissot, J Meliani… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Growing evidence indicates that human activities are causing cancer rates to rise in both
human and wildlife populations. This is due to the inability of ancestral anti‐cancer defences …

Behavioural ecology meets oncology: quantifying the recovery of animal behaviour to a transient exposure to a cancer risk factor

H Klaassen, S Tissot, J Meliani… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wildlife is increasingly exposed to sublethal transient cancer risk factors, including
mutagenic substances, which activates their anti-cancer defences, promotes …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic nutrients and phytoplankton diversity in Kenya's coastal waters: An ecological quality assessment of sea turtle foraging sites

NA Oduor, CN Munga, LK Imbayi, PK Botwe… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
We assessed ecological quality status (EQS) of coastal waters following claims of increasing
sea turtle fibro-papillomatosis (FP) infections in Kenya, a disease hypothesized to be …

Future research avenues for the study of fibropapillomatosis in sea turtles

SM Dupont, P Bustamante, DJ Duffy, J Fort… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a debilitating tumoral disease affecting sea turtles worldwide.
While mainly afflicting immature individuals and potentially altering vital functions, the …

Photo-identification shows the spatio-temporal distribution of two sea turtle species in a Brazilian developmental foraging ground

I Neves-Ferreira, J Mello-Fonseca, CEL Ferreira - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Sea turtles spend most of their life cycle in foraging grounds. Research in developmental
habitats is crucial to understanding individual dynamics and to support conservation …

First Evidence of Chelonid Herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) Infection in Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) from Sabah, Borneo

AL Loganathan, P Palaniappan, VK Subbiah - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) of sea turtles is characterised by cutaneous tumours and is
associated with Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5), an alphaherpesvirus from the family …

Evidence of chelonid herpesvirus 5 infection in green turtle (Chelonia mydas) indicated a possible tumorigenesis activation by transcriptome analysis

TH Li, II Lei, OV Byadgi, IC Chen… - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Chelonia mydas (green turtles) are being threatened worldwide by fibropapillomatosis (FP),
which has seriously affected their survival. The presence of FP on the body surface and …

Evo-devo perspectives on cancer

AM Nedelcu - Essays in Biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
The integration of evolutionary and developmental approaches into the field of evolutionary
developmental biology has opened new areas of inquiry—from understanding the evolution …