Recurrent horizontal transfer identifies mitochondrial positive selection in a transmissible cancer

The competitive dynamics of mitochondrial haplotypes juxtaposed within the same cell are poorly studied. Here the authors show, in the context of a transmissible cancer, that one haplotype has recurrently entered cancer cells by horizontal transfer and appears to have a ‘selfish’ selective advantage...

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Main Authors: Andrea Strakova, Thomas J. Nicholls, Adrian Baez-Ortega, Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Alexander T. Sampson, Katherine Hughes, Isobelle A. G. Bolton, Kevin Gori, Jinhong Wang, Ilona Airikkala-Otter, Janice L. Allen, Karen M. Allum, Clara L. Arnold, Leontine Bansse-Issa, Thinlay N. Bhutia, Jocelyn L. Bisson, Kelli Blank, Cristóbal Briceño, Artemio Castillo Domracheva, Anne M. Corrigan, Hugh R. Cran, Jane T. Crawford, Stephen M. Cutter, Eric Davis, Karina F. de Castro, Andrigo B. De Nardi, Anna P. de Vos, Laura Delgadillo Keenan, Edward M. Donelan, Adela R. Espinoza Huerta, Ibikunle A. Faramade, Mohammed Fazil, Eleni Fotopoulou, Skye N. Fruean, Fanny Gallardo-Arrieta, Olga Glebova, Pagona G. Gouletsou, Rodrigo F. Häfelin Manrique, Joaquim J. G. P. Henriques, Rodrigo S. Horta, Natalia Ignatenko, Yaghouba Kane, Cathy King, Debbie Koenig, Ada Krupa, Steven J. Kruzeniski, Marta Lanza-Perea, Mihran Lazyan, Adriana M. Lopez Quintana, Thibault Losfelt, Gabriele Marino, Simón Martínez Castañeda, Mayra F. Martínez-López, Bedan M. Masuruli, Michael Meyer, Edward J. Migneco, Berna Nakanwagi, Karter B. Neal, Winifred Neunzig, Sally J. Nixon, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco, Francisco Pedraza-Ordoñez, Maria C. Peleteiro, Katherine Polak, Ruth J. Pye, Juan C. Ramirez-Ante, John F. Reece, Jose Rojas Gutierrez, Haleema Sadia, Sheila K. Schmeling, Olga Shamanova, Alan G. Sherlock, Audrey E. Steenland-Smit, Alla Svitich, Lester J. Tapia Martínez, Ismail Thoya Ngoka, Cristian G. Torres, Elizabeth M. Tudor, Mirjam G. van der Wel, Bogdan A. Vițălaru, Sevil A. Vural, Oliver Walkinton, Alvaro S. Wehrle-Martinez, Sophie A. E. Widdowson, Irina Zvarich, Patrick F. Chinnery, Maria Falkenberg, Claes M. Gustafsson, Elizabeth P. Murchison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16765-w