SYDNEY (Reuters) - A lack of genetic diversity in Australia's Tasmanian Devil means it has failed to launch an immune defense response to a facial cancer decimating populations, Australian researchers say.When I was on Tasmania in October 2004 I was told by many people there that I would not see the Devil except as a road kill and that's the only way I saw them - dead along the roadside trying to mimic armadillo's.
The irony of this story is that the Tasmanian Devil is being wiped out by a lack of genetic diversity - the same thing that is wiping out the Republic Party in the United States.
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