Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancer - Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Journal Articles Journal of Animal Ecology Year : 2024

Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancer

Mathieu Giraudeau
Sophie Dupont
Tuul Sepp
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Ciara Baines
Karin Lemberger
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Amy Boddy
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Antoine Dujon
Georgina Bramwell
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Valerie Harris
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Beata Ujvari
Stephane Lair
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David Sayag
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Dalia Conde
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Fernando Colchero
Tara Harrison
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Samuel Pavard
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Benjamin Padilla-Morales
Damien Chevallier
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Rodrigo Hamede
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Athena Aktipis
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Carlo Maley
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James Degregori
Guillaume Le Loc’h
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Abstract

Abstractcontributes to the One Health Approach, which investigates health issues at the intersection of people, wild and domestic animals, together with their changing environments. Nonetheless, the emerging field of wildlife cancer is currently constrained by methodological limitations in detecting cancer using non‐invasive sampling. In addition, the suspected differential susceptibility and resistance of species to cancer often make the choice of a unique model species difficult for field biologists. Here, we provide an overview of the importance of pursuing the study of cancer in non‐model organisms and we review the currently available methods to detect, measure and quantify cancer in the wild, as well as the methodological limitations to be overcome to develop novel approaches inspired by diagnostic techniques used in human medicine. The methodology we propose here will help understand and hopefully fight this major disease by generating general knowledge about cancer, variation in its rates, tumour‐suppressor mechanisms across species as well as its link to life history and physiological characters. Moreover, this is expected to provide key information about cancer in wildlife, which is a top priority due to the accelerated anthropogenic change in the past decades that might favour cancer progression in wild populations.
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hal-04695424 , version 1 (13-09-2024)

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Mathieu Giraudeau, Orsolya Vincze, Sophie Dupont, Tuul Sepp, Ciara Baines, et al.. Approaches and methods to study wildlife cancer. Journal of Animal Ecology, 2024, ⟨10.1111/1365-2656.14144⟩. ⟨hal-04695424⟩
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