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The effects of changing atmospheric oxygen concentrations and background radiation levels on radiogenic DNA damage rates.
Health physics - 1 Nov 2001
Karam P A, Leslie S A, Anbar A
Abstract excerpt
Both background radiation levels and atmospheric oxygen concentrations have changed dramatically over the history of life on earth. Because oxygen has a strong modifying influence on radiogenic mutation rates, these factors must be considered jointly to determine changes in radiogenic mutation rates over time. Using accepted models that describe how both of these parameters have changed through time, we find that...
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