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SUBMITTER: Murchison EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3281993 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell 20120201 4
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), the largest marsupial carnivore, is endangered due to a transmissible facial cancer spread by direct transfer of living cancer cells through biting. Here we describe the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of the Tasmanian devil genome and whole-genome sequences for two geographically distant subclones of the cancer. Genomic analysis suggests that the cancer first arose from a female Tasmanian devil and that the clone has subsequently genetically dive ...[more]