Tasmanian Devil with Devil Facial Tumor Disease (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Tasmanian Devil with Devil Facial Tumor Disease

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A Tasmanian devil suffers from a lethal, transmissible facial tumor after being bitten by another devil that was the cancer's previous host.

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Wikipedia, Public Library of Science: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342

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