Acknowledgments
This study was financed by National Centre of Science (Poland) within
Harmonia 9 grant “Contagious neoplasia? The role of horizontal
transmission of cancer cells in aetiology of disseminated neoplasia in
clams from the Gulf of Gdańsk”, grant number: UMO-2017/26/M/NZ8/00478
and National Institutes of Health support to Michael Metzger (K22
CA226047) and Sam Hart (T32-GM007270, T32-HG000035).
We would like to thank Dr Justyna Świeżak (University of Gdańsk) for
help in sample collection and processing, Marisa Yonemitsu (Pacific
Northwest Research Institute and University of Washington) for
laboratory assistance and guidance and Rachael Giersch (Pacific
Northwest Research Institute) for help in manuscript editing.