The Evolution of Dog Cancer

Cancer which kills its host is going to limit its own possibilities for odward transmission. A cancer that comes in and causes a fairly mild disease, lives alongside its host for potential years has many more transmission opportunities. These diseases have only recently been found in bivalves but could have driven past declines in numbers. Elicia bruthos, cancer researcher at the francis crick institute, who studies these reendations inbi valves says they were reported in the late sixties and in the seventi aneties of last century. If we were to lose bivalves, tis would be a really important problem in terms of impacting coastal bire diversity,. eco system function,