A Sixth Modality of Infectious Disease: Contagious Cancer from Devils to Clams and Beyond

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Michael J. Metzger ,

* E-mail: mm4184@columbia.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, New York, United States of America
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Stephen P. Goff

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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