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Entomologist Kay Prudic has big plans for butterflies: Enlisting hikers and nature enthusiasts as volunteers, she wants to collect much-needed field data about the biodiversity, ecology, and health of pollinators from remote backcountry locations.

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The classical definition of CTCs in human cancer is a circulating cell expressing a tumor antigen [typically epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EPCAM) or cytokeratin for epithelial cancers] and not expressing the pan-leukocyte antigen CD45 (28, 29). MФs normally express CD45; therefore, we reasoned that MФ–cancer cell fusion hybrids would also express this cell surface epitope. The majority of RFP+/GFP+ fusion hybrids expressed CD45, while unfused RFP+ cancer cells largely did not (Fig. 4B and fig. S8). The classical isolation approaches for CTCs exclude any CD45-expressing cells and therefore exclude the novel CHC population from routine analyses. The presence of both classical CTCs and novel CHCs highlights heterogeneity of tumor cells in circulation destined to seed metastatic tumors. Moreover, presence of CD45-expressing CHCs in our mouse models prompted us to investigate the presence of this unique hybrid population in human cancer patients.

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Cell fusion between immune and neoplastic cells initiating tumorigenesis and affecting progression is an untested, century-old hypothesis (9, 10) that has been only circumstantially examined (10, 12, 17, 31, 33–37). Reports of cells located in tumors containing components of both immune and neoplastic cells are increasingly frequent (1, 10–13, 16, 17, 19, 35, 38–44), although without strong evidence of etiologic mechanism or physiologic relevance. Early in vitro studies revealed that cell fusion hybrids displayed reduced cell doubling times relative to their genetic burden (45). More recently, it was suggested that tumor cell fusions gain shorter cell cycling times compared to either of their parental cells (46, 47). These divergent views add to the controversy of whether cell fusion provides a selective advantage to evolving tumors. Moreover, description of MФ gene expression in metastatic cancer cells as evidence that fusion propagates aggressive metastatic spread of cancer (31, 42) is presented without substantial proof that these cells arise from a fusion event, further diminishing enthusiasm for this mechanism. Despite this, MФ–neoplastic cell fusion does provide an intriguing mechanism for how neoplastic cells rapidly gain discrete cellular behaviors to facilitate metastases and to propagate intratumoral heterogeneity. Before this study, experimental results demonstrating in vivo tumor cell fusion with MФs or investigating a function role for cell fusion in tumor progression were undetermined. Here, we demonstrate that cell fusion occurs spontaneously in a number of systems. Cell fusion can contribute to the generation of diverse neoplastic clones with altered phenotypes, implicating it as a mechanism for gain of intratumoral heterogeneity. This finding may reveal insight into diverse tumor cell pathophysiology that underlies treatment resistance, progression, and posttreatment tumor recurrence in human cancer.