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I suspect that in these animals, there gene diversity is quite low. Most humans cannot even share blood with one another, let alone cancers because our immune s
by yincrash 11y ago
I suspect that in these animals, there gene diversity is quite low. Most humans cannot even share blood with one another, let alone cancers because our immune systems doesn't like things that are too different than our own cells. I suspect cancer from a twin could be more easily transmissible than one from a stranger.
- pecanpie 11y agoYep, they're not very diverse at all, which, as you've suspected, is probably what makes them more susceptible to the transmissable cancer: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/02/science/la-sci-tazmanian-devil-dna-20110702 http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/02/science/la-sci-tazma...