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Return to the Sea, Get Huge, Beat Cancer: An Analysis of Cetacean Genomes Including an Assembly for the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Cetaceans are a clade of highly specialized aquatic mammals that include the largest animals that have ever lived. The largest whales can have ∼1,000× more cells than a human, with long lifespans, leaving them theoretically susceptible to cancer. However, large-bodied and long-lived animals do not s...

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Autores principales: Tollis, Marc, Robbins, Jooke, Webb, Andrew E, Kuderna, Lukas F K, Caulin, Aleah F, Garcia, Jacinda D, Bèrubè, Martine, Pourmand, Nader, Marques-Bonet, Tomas, O’Connell, Mary J, Palsbøll, Per J, Maley, Carlo C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31070747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz099