🐍🧬New paper: Polyandry & non-random fertilisation maintain long-term genetic diversity in an isolated island population of adders (Vipera berus). Pub via Heredity. wildgenesgroup.com/2022/12/07/pol… #CIEresearch

We recently explored if spice consumption by humans evolved as a way to protect them against #cancer. Short answer: it hasn't. We published the study in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health: academic.oup.com/emph/advance-a… A thread on how we tested this hypothesis (1/7).

🚨New paper - No evidence that #spice consumption is a #cancer prevention mechanism in human populations. Pub via Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. wildgenesgroup.com/2023/01/27/no-…

Fun paper to write. I used the Drake equation 📡, created to estimate the number of civilizations in the Milky Way👽to estimate the number of species likely to have transmissible cancers, a form of disease 🦠 that can spread to entire animal populations🌏. doi.org/10.1002/bies.2…

🧐 New paper alert: Number of lifetime menses increases #BreastCancer occurrence in postmenopausal women at high familial risk, pub via Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution. wildgenesgroup.com/2023/03/27/num…

New study on how placentation is linked to #cancer risk in mammals. Placentation can be an invasive process with foetal cells invading maternal tissues, and we think that cancer cells may be able to use pathways responsible for that invasiveness to become more malignant (1/5)

🧐 New paper alert: The #tumour is in the detail: Local phylogenetic, population & epidemiological dynamics of a transmissible #cancer in Tasmanian devils. Pub via Evolutionary Applications. wildgenesgroup.com/2023/07/03/the…

Fuelling up for awesome sessions at ICG2023! Out in force the The Wild Genes Group :-) Grace Day Dr Anne-Lise Gérard Georgina Bramwell Nynke Raven Cancer Ecology & Evolution Caitlin Vanbeek @deakinresearch

Busy days at #ICG2023 check out Dr Anne-Lise Gérard and Caitlin Vanbeek's poster about the "Fast and furious, how transmissible cancers survive the metabolic race". Want to know more? Check poster 107 tomorrow! Cell culture designs by the fabulous Dr Hannah Siddle

👉New paper alert: The paradox of cooperation among selfish #cancer cells. Pub via Evolutionary Applications. wildgenesgroup.com/2023/08/15/the…

New paper! I am so pleased that my paper 'Genetic divergence of farmed blue mussels (Mytilus sp.) in Australian waters' is now published in Aquaculture! Find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.aqua… Beata Ujvari Aaron Schultz Antoine Dujon Craig Sherman The Wild Genes Group @MusselsAreCool

🐺🦘🦠🐂🦭 Does parasite removal increase the risk of cancer in captive mammals, as predicted by the hygiene hypothesis? Our new study in Ecology and Evolution on 112 mammal species found no such evidence. This is good news! Find the paper in open access here 👇 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

Close up of a dense mat of #Australian freshwater hydras in a mass culture I maintain in the Cancer Ecology & Evolution lab. They are used to study the effects of #cancer on ecosystems. When they reach those densities, the whole space is packed with tentacles looking for preys to feed on.

Looking for students in Australia for Honours project to work in the Cancer Ecology & Evolution international laboratory. Retweets would be appreciated and help a lot. #cancer #ecology #pollution

Featured on L'UM La Science podcast, Sophie Tissot, a doctoral candidate from our CANECEV international laboratory, delves into her research exploring the influence of nutrition on the development of cancers (recently published in Scientific Reports). umontpellier.fr/articles/a-lum…

New study in The Royal Society investigating how a short term sublethal exposure to a cancer risk factor affects the behaviour of a freshwater planaria and how it recovers from the damages over time. Link to the paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

📢New paper: The effect of mitochondrial recombination on fertilization success in blue mussels. Pub via STOTEN. wildgenesgroup.com/2024/02/26/the…

🔊New paper: Behavioural ecology meets oncology: quantifying the recovery of animal behaviour to a transient exposure to a #cancer risk factor. Pub via Royal Society Publishing. wildgenesgroup.com/2024/02/26/beh…

👉New paper: In vitro competition between two transmissible cancers & potential implications for their host, the Tasmanian devil. Pub via Evolutionary Applications. wildgenesgroup.com/2024/03/26/in-… #CancerResearch

NEW Paper: Complex associations between #cancer progression and immune gene expression reveals early influence of transmissible cancer on Tasmanian devils. Pub via Frontiers - Immunology. #CancerResearch wildgenesgroup.com/2024/03/26/com…