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Variation in mitochondrial DNA control region haplotypes in populations of the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus, living in the Chernobyl environment, Ukraine.
Environmental toxicology and chemistry - 1 Feb 2006
Wickliffe Jeffrey K, Dunina-Barkovskaya Yelena V, Gaschak Sergey P, Rodgers Brenda E, Chesser Ronald K, Bondarkov Mikhail, Baker Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus, specimens have been annually sampled from the radioactive Chernobyl, Ukraine, environment and nonradioactive reference sites since 1997. Exposed voles continually exhibit increased mitochondrial DNA haplotype (h) and nucleotide diversity (ND), observed in the hypervariable control region (1997-1999). Increased maternal mutation rates, source-sink relationships, or both are...
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