Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life?

• Stefania E. Kapsetaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: stkapseta@asu.edu

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9999-8573

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• Angelo Fortunato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Zachary Compton,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Shawn M. Rupp,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Zaid Nour,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Skyelyn Riggs-Davis,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Dylan Stephenson,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Elizabeth G. Duke,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, Exotic Species Cancer Research Alliance, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Amy M. Boddy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

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• Tara M. Harrison,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, Exotic Species Cancer Research Alliance, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Carlo C. Maley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlo C. Maley, Athena Aktipis

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Biodesign Institute, Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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• Athena Aktipis

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlo C. Maley, Athena Aktipis

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States of America

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