1. Spontaneously occurring tumors in different wild-derived strains of hydra
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Boutry, Justine, Buysse, Marie, Tissot, Sophie, Cazevielle, Chantal, Hamede, Rodrigo, Dujon, Antoine, Ujvari, Beata, Giraudeau, Mathieu, Klimovich, Alexander, Thomas, Frédéric, Tökölyi, Jácint, Centre de Recherches Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer (MIVEGEC-CREEC), Processus Écologiques et Évolutifs au sein des Communautés (PEEC), Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Université de Montpellier (UM), Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier (INM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Deakin University [Waurn Ponds], LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, University of Debrecen Egyetem [Debrecen], The Project is funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Grant no. ANR-18-CE35-0009, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, International Associ-ated Laboratory Grant, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Grant no. Lendület LP2021/12, and ANR-18-CE35-0009,TRANSCAN,ECOLOGIE ET EVOLUTION DES CANCERS TRANSMISSIBLES(2018)
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[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Chlamydiales ,Multidisciplinary ,MESH: Hydra ,MESH: Fresh Water ,MESH: Animals ,[SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,MESH: Female ,MESH: Male - Abstract
Hydras are freshwater cnidarians widely used as a biological model to study different questions such as senescence or phenotypic plasticity but also tumoral development. The spontaneous tumors found in these organisms have been so far described in two female lab strains domesticated years ago (Hydra oligactis and Pelmatohydra robusta) and the extent to which these tumors can be representative of tumors within the diversity of wild hydras is completely unknown. In this study, we examined individuals isolated from recently sampled wild strains of different sex and geographical origin, which have developed outgrowths looking like tumors. These tumefactions have common features with the tumors previously described in lab strains: are composed of an accumulation of abnormal cells, resulting in a similar enlargement of the tissue layers. However, we also found diversity within these new types of tumors. Indeed, not only females, but also males seem prone to form these tumors. Finally, the microbiota associated to these tumors is different from the one involved in the previous lineages exhibiting tumors. We found that tumorous individuals hosted yet undescribed Chlamydiales vacuoles. This study brings new insights into the understanding of tumor susceptibility and diversity in brown hydras from different origins.
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- 2023