Roche Benjamin, Moller A.P., DeGregori J., Thomas F. (2017). Cancer in animals : reciprocal feedbacks between evolution of cancer resistance and ecosystem functioning. In :
Ujvari B. (ed.), Roche Benjamin (ed.), Thomas F. (ed.). Ecology and evolution of cancer. Londres : Elsevier Academic Press, p. 181-191. ISBN 978-0-12-804310-3.
Titre du document
Cancer in animals : reciprocal feedbacks between evolution of cancer resistance and ecosystem functioning
Année de publication
2017
Type de document
Partie d'ouvrage
Auteurs
Roche Benjamin, Moller A.P., DeGregori J., Thomas F.
In
Ujvari B. (ed.), Roche Benjamin (ed.), Thomas F. (ed.), Ecology and evolution of cancer
Source
Londres : Elsevier Academic Press, 2017,
p. 181-191 ISBN 978-0-12-804310-3
Cancer is definitely not a disease strictly confined to human populations. Indeed, despite a lack of robustly collected datasets, it is becoming increasingly evident that cancer can affect almost all multicellular species. In this chapter, we review how animal species may have selected complex and efficient mechanisms of cancer resistance, which could rely on cellular processes or behavior adjustment. Meanwhile, we illustrate also how cancer can interfere with the ecology of the affected species, leading to scrambled abiotic and biotic relationships with other species that could impact significantly the whole ecosystem functioning. We finally suggest that such cancer resistance mechanisms and ecosystem structure should interact together, which is extraordinarily challenging to forecast but could represent a crucial insight into our understanding of community ecology, as well as the complex selective pressures played by the carcinogenic process.
Plan de classement
Santé : généralités [050]
;
Entomologie médicale / Parasitologie / Virologie [052]
;
Sciences du monde animal [080]
