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Sunlight-exposed biofilm microbial communities are naturally resistant to chernobyl ionizing-radiation levels.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Ragon Marie, Restoux Gwendal, Moreira David, Møller Anders Pape, López-García Purificación
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Chernobyl accident represents a long-term experiment on the effects of exposure to ionizing radiation at the ecosystem level. Though studies of these effects on plants and animals are abundant, the study of how Chernobyl radiation levels affect prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities is practically non-existent, except for a few reports on human pathogens or soil microorganisms....
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