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L1 retrotransposition is a significant source of genomic variation in human epithelial tumours, which can contribute to tumorigenesis. However, fundamental questions about the causes and consequences of L1 activity in cancer genomes remain unresolved, primarily due to the limitations of short-read sequencing technologies. Here, we employ multiplatf...
Cancer is a multifaceted genetic disease characterized by the acquisition of several essential hallmarks. Notably, certain cancers exhibit horizontal transmissibility, observed across mammalian species and diverse bivalves, the latter referred to as hemic neoplasia. Within this complex landscape, epigenetic mechanisms such as histone modifications...
Transmissible cancer occurs by the direct transfer of cancer cells from one individual to others by being released into the marine environment and forming a new tumor in the host. This type of cancer can be found in dogs, Tasmanian devils, and bivalves. Regarding bivalves, it arose at least nine times independently, so there are different lineages....
In this study, we investigated the integration of Human Herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) into the human genome using the primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) cell line BC-3. Through next-generation sequencing (NGS) data from multiple independent sequencing runs, we identified two highly supported HHV-8 integrants. These integrants encompassed a region of human chr...
Transmissible cancers are malignant cell lineages that spread clonally between individuals. Several such cancers, termed bivalve transmissible neoplasia (BTN), induce leukemia-like disease in marine bivalves. This is the case of BTN lineages affecting the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule, which inhabits the Atlantic coasts of Europe and northwest...
Cover featuring transmissible leukemia-like cancer in the marine species Cerastoderma edule and Mya arenaria is characterized by long-term tolerance as well as genomic instability.
See Bruzos et al. and Hart et al. and the accompanying News & Views article by Schönbichler & Bergthaler. Link: https://www.nature.com/natcancer/volumes/4/issues/11
As a part of financed project by JACUMAR on culture and management of Paracentrotus lividus in the autonomous regions of Asturias, Canary Islands and Galicia, was expected to use in Canary Islands youthful individuals obtained in other communities, estimating that, according to previous publications, did not be genetic diversity between Mediterrane...
There are sex differences in microglia, which can maintain sex‐related gene expression and functional differences in the absence of circulating sex steroids. The angiotensin type 2 (AT2) receptors mediate anti‐inflammatory actions in different tissues, including brain. In mice, we performed RT‐PCR analysis of microglia isolated from adult brains an...
Transmissible cancers are malignant cell clones that spread among individuals through transfer of living cancer cells. Several such cancers, collectively known as bivalve transmissible neoplasia (BTN), are known to infect and cause leukaemia in marine bivalve molluscs. This is the case of BTN clones affecting the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule ,...
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Antibiotic resistance is an important concern for the public health authorities at global level. It is detrimental to human and environmental ecosystems, thus, there is a big need for natural bioactive compounds. In this work, we aimed to find out biomolecules derived from marine bacteria that may constitute an alternative to antibioti...
Clonally transmissible cancers are tumour lineages that are transmitted between individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. In marine bivalves, leukaemia-like transmissible cancers, called hemic neoplasia (HN), have demonstrated the ability to infect individuals from different species. We performed whole-genome sequencing in eight warty ve...
Most cancers are characterized by the somatic acquisition of genomic rearrangements during tumour evolution that eventually drive the oncogenesis. Here, using multiplatform sequencing technologies, we identify and characterize a remarkable mutational mechanism in human hepatocellular carcinoma caused by Hepatitis B virus, by which DNA molecules fro...
Recently, the interest in donkey milk has increased considerably because it proved high nutritive and functional values of their ingredients. Its chemical composition is widely studied, but its microbiota, especially lactic acid bacteria, remains less studied. This study focuses on analyzing, isolating, and identifying lactic acid bacteria and eval...
Following its emergence in late 2019, the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)1,2 has been tracked via phylogenetic analysis of viral genome sequences in unprecedented detail3–5. While the virus spread globally in early 2020 before borders closed, intercontinental travel has since been greatly reduced. However, wit...
Most cancers are characterized by the somatic acquisition 52 of genomic rearrangements during tumour evolution that eventually drive the oncogenesis. There are different mutational mechanisms causing structural variation, some of which are specific to particular cancer types. Here, using multiplatform sequencing technologies, we identify and charac...
Clonally transmissible cancers are tumour lineages that are transmitted between individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. In marine bivalves, leukemia-like transmissible cancers, called hemic neoplasia, have demonstrated the ability to infect individuals from different species. We performed whole-genome sequencing in eight warty venus cl...
Exploited, understudied populations of the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797, occur in the northeastern Atlantic (NEA) throughout Macaronesia, comprising the Azores, Madeira and Canaries, and also the Cabo Verde archipelago. This octopus species, found from the intertidal to shallow continental-shelf waters, is largely sedentary, and th...
About half of all cancers have somatic integrations of retrotransposons. Here, to characterize their role in oncogenesis, we analyzed the patterns and mechanisms of somatic retrotransposition in 2,954 cancer genomes from 38 histological cancer subtypes within the framework of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project. We identified 1...
About half of all cancers have somatic integrations of retrotransposons. Here, to characterize their role in oncogenesis, we analyzed the patterns and mechanisms of somatic retrotransposition in 2,954 cancer genomes from 38 histological cancer subtypes within the framework of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project. We identified 1...
The sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus is the most commercially important sea urchin species harvested in the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. To improve the management of P. lividus natural stock and its commercial exploitation, the population genetic structure of P. lividus in the Northeast Atlantic coast has been characterized. Populations fr...
Clonally transmissible cancers are somatic cell lineages transmitted between individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. There are only three known types of naturally occurring clonally transmissible cancers, one of which is a leukaemia-like cancer found in cockles, called disseminated neoplasia (DN). Using DN as a model to identify the ge...
Microbial communities of natural subaerial biofilms developed on granitic historic buildings of a World Heritage Site (Santiago de Compostela, NW Spain) were characterized and cultured in liquid BG11 medium. Environmental barcoding through next-generation sequencing (Pacific Biosciences) revealed that the biofilms were mainly composed of species of...
According to molecular biology, genomic and proteo-mic data, the phytopathogenic gamma-proteobacte-rium Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 produces a number of proteins that may promote infection and draw nutrients from plants. Remarkably, P. syringae DC3000 strain possesses three paralogous gap genes encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehy-dr...
The taxonomy of pedunculate cirripedes belonging to the genus Pollicipes has essentially remained unchanged since Charles Darwin described them in his exhaustive work on the Cirripedia. This genus includes three species of stalked barnacles: Pollicipes pollicipes in the north-eastern Atlantic, P. polymerus in the north-eastern Pacific and P. elegan...
Within its distribution range in the northeastern Atlantic, the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes shows a well-defined pattern of genetic variation, comprising (a) a subtropical/temperate northern assemblage, made up of
populations distributed between 47°N and 28°N along the French, Iberian, North African and Canary Islands coastlines, and
(b)...
En Venezuela, a lo largo de la cuenca del Orinoco, el género Pseudoplatystoma (familia Pimelodidae), está representado por dos especies de bagres rayados, P. fasciatum y P. tigrinum. Debido a la importancia ecológica, económica y al gran esfuerzo pesquero que se ejerce sobre dichas especies, es necesario realizar la identificación genética de estos...
The Iberian Peninsula contains the majority of the Paleartic land slug species of the genus Arion, which exhibits diverse taxonomic problems. The present study investigated Arion taxonomy on the basis of analyses of the mitochondrial ND1 gene and nuclear internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) sequences. The Iberian endemic species were monophyletical...
