Article
[The grounds of interspices difference in radiation-genetic effects of low-level radiation].
Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Iarmonenko S P
Abstract excerpt
Radiation-genetic effects are characterized by large quantitative difference. After the low dose radiation appearance of mutation is the largest in Drosophila, substantially lower in mice, especially if irradiation was protracted, and practically absent in humans. As the possible grounds of this difference the author consider the existence of non-specific repair mechanism, which has arouse during evolution for...
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