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Cancer and life-history traits: lessons from host–parasite interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2016

BEATA UJVARI ,
CHRISTA BECKMANN ,
PETER A. BIRO ,
AUDREY ARNAL ,
AURELIE TASIEMSKI ,
FRANCOIS MASSOL ,
MICHEL SALZET ,
FREDERIC MERY ,
CELINE BOIDIN-WICHLACZ  and
DOROTHEE MISSE
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BEATA UJVARI
Affiliation:
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia
CHRISTA BECKMANN
Affiliation:
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia
PETER A. BIRO
Affiliation:
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3216, Australia
AUDREY ARNAL
Affiliation:
CREEC/MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
AURELIE TASIEMSKI
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 8198, Unité Evolution, Ecologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lille1, France
FRANCOIS MASSOL
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 8198, Unité Evolution, Ecologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lille1, France
MICHEL SALZET
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Protéomique, Réponse Inflammatoire et Spectrométrie de Masse (PRISM) INSERM U1192 – Université Lille, 1-FR 3688, CNRS, France
FREDERIC MERY
Affiliation:
Evolution, Génomes, Comportement & Ecologie, CNRS, IRD, Univ.Paris-Sud, Université Paris Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette
CELINE BOIDIN-WICHLACZ
Affiliation:
UMR CNRS 8198, Unité Evolution, Ecologie et Paléontologie, Université de Lille1, France
DOROTHEE MISSE
Affiliation:
CREEC/MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
FRANCOIS RENAUD
Affiliation:
CREEC/MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
MARION VITTECOQ
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat, le Sambuc, 13200 Arles, France
TAZZIO TISSOT
Affiliation:
CREEC/MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
BENJAMIN ROCHE
Affiliation:
CREEC/MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France International Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling of Complex Systems (UMI IRD/UPMC UMMISCO), 32 Avenue Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy Cedex, France
ROBERT POULIN
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO BOX 56, New-Zealand
FREDERIC THOMAS*
Affiliation:
CREEC/MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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*Corresponding author. CREEC/ MIVEGEC, UMR IRD/CNRS/UM 5290, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. Phone +33 (0)4 67 41 63 18. Fax: +33 (0)4 67 41 63 30. E-mail: Frederic.thomas2@ird.fr
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Summary

Despite important differences between infectious diseases and cancers, tumour development (neoplasia) can nonetheless be closely compared to infectious disease because of the similarity of their effects on the body. On this basis, we predict that many of the life-history (LH) responses observed in the context of host–parasite interactions should also be relevant in the context of cancer. Parasites are thought to affect LH traits of their hosts because of strong selective pressures like direct and indirect mortality effects favouring, for example, early maturation and reproduction. Cancer can similarly also affect LH traits by imposing direct costs and/or indirectly by triggering plastic adjustments and evolutionary responses. Here, we discuss how and why a LH focus is a potentially productive but under-exploited research direction for cancer research, by focusing our attention on similarities between infectious disease and cancer with respect to their effects on LH traits and their evolution. We raise the possibility that LH adjustments can occur in response to cancer via maternal/paternal effects and that these changes can be heritable to (adaptively) modify the LH traits of their offspring. We conclude that LH adjustments can potentially influence the transgenerational persistence of inherited oncogenic mutations in populations.

Keywords

Cancerevolutionary ecologylife-history traitsparasitesplasticity
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Parasitology , Volume 143 , Issue 5 , April 2016 , pp. 533 - 541
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