来自加州海洋哺乳动物中心的研究称，在动物尸检过程中发现，有四分之一的成年加州海狮患有由疱疹病毒毒株所触发的宫颈癌，该研究对人类癌症研究具有重要的借鉴作用。 英文原文： http://t.cn/A6cAnFWS

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California sea lion Moonunit was one of 258 sea lions examined in necropsy, or animal autopsy, for cancer at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA, in a newly released study published in Animals as part of the Special Issue Oncogenic Viruses in Animals. The findings support that genital herpesvirus, specifically otarine herpesvirus-1 (OtHV1), plays an integral role in sea lion urogenital carcinoma and suggests there is an underlying trigger or event that causes the virus to induce cancer in some infected sea lions and not others.

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