The Tasmanian devil is a marsupial indigenous to the island of Tasmania, experienced a population bottleneck in the late 1800s. Unlike the immune system of other species, including humans, the Tasmanian devils immune system does not reject the distributed cells as non self or foreign, but it receives them as if they were their own cells. Why would a population bottleneck results in the inability of single devils immune system to identify another devils cells as foreign? Introduction: The current Tasmania devil population are plagued by a type of cancer called as devil facial tumor disease. It occurs inside the individuals mouths of animals. The devil facial tumor disease is an aggressive non-viral clonally cancerous. It affects Tasmania devils, a marsupial native to Australia. The affected Tasmania devils can actually pass their cancer cells from one animal to another through mating rituals. The most possible way of transmission is by biting, mainly when canine teeth came into contact directly with the diseased cells.

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The Tasmanian devil is a marsupial indigenous to the island of Tasmania, experienced a population bottleneck in the late 1800s. Unlike the immune system of other species, including humans, the Tasmanian devils immune system does not reject the distributed cells as non self or foreign, but it receives them as if they were their own cells. Why would a population bottleneck results in the inability of single devils immune system to identify another devils cells as foreign?

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The current Tasmania devil population are plagued by a type of cancer called as devil facial tumor disease. It occurs inside the individuals mouths of animals. The devil facial tumor disease is an aggressive non-viral clonally cancerous. It affects Tasmania devils, a marsupial native to Australia. The affected Tasmania devils can actually pass their cancer cells from one animal to another through mating rituals. The most possible way of transmission is by biting, mainly when canine teeth came into contact directly with the diseased cells.

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