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High levels of genetic change in rodents of Chernobyl.
Nature - 25 Apr 1996
Baker R J, Van Den Bussche R A, Wright A J, Wiggins L E, Hamilton M J, Reat E P, Smith M H, Lomakin M D, Chesser R K
Abstract excerpt
Base-pair substitution rates for the mitochondrial cytochrome beta gene of free-living, native populations of voles collected next to reactor 4 at Chernobyl, Ukraine, were estimated by two independent methods to be in excess of 10(-4) nucleotides per site per generation. These estimates are hundreds of times greater than those typically found in mitochondria of vertebrates, suggesting that the environment...
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