The importance of cancer cells for animal evolutionary ecology

Frédéric Thomas (1) , Camille Jacqueline (1) , Tazzio Tissot (1) , Morgane Henard (1) , Simon Blanchet (2) , Géraldine Loot (3) , Erika Dawson (4) , Frederic Mery (4) , Francois Renaud (1) , Jacques Montagne (5) , Christa Beckmann (6, 7) , Peter Biro (6) , Rodrigo Hamede (6) , Beata Ujvari (6)

1 MIVEGEC-CREEC - Centre de Recherches Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer
2 SETE - Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale
3 EDB - Evolution et Diversité Biologique
4 LEGS - Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation [Gif-sur-Yvette]
5 I2BC - Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule
6 Centre for Integrative Ecology
7 UNE - University of New England

Reciprocal interactions between hosts, their symbionts and their oncobiota (cancer cell communities) are yet to be studied in detail. Considering malignant cells in addition to the holobiont perspective allows greater understanding of the processes governing both host phenotypes and cancer dynamic

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Cancer

Frédéric Thomas, Camille Jacqueline, Tazzio Tissot, Morgane Henard, Simon Blanchet, et al.. The importance of cancer cells for animal evolutionary ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017, 1 (11), pp.1592 - 1595. ⟨10.1038/s41559-017-0343-z⟩. ⟨cea-01887606⟩