Somatic evolution of marine transmissible leukemias in the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule - Nature.com
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Bruzos et al. analyze >6,800 samples of Cerastoderma edule, generate a reference genome and follow the evolution of bivalve transmissible neoplasia that infects them. They find two lineages that show genomic instability but also long-term tolerance.