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Genetic disorders in house mouse germ cells after the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Mutation research - 19 Nov 1997
Pomerantseva M D, Ramaiya L K, Chekhovich A V
Abstract excerpt
Genetic effects were studied in house mice caught from 1986 to 1994 in regions polluted by radionuclides as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. The dose rates of gamma-radiation on the soil surface ranged from 0.0002 to 2 mGy/h. The frequency of reciprocal translocations in mouse spermatocytes was relatively low, but increased with the dose rate. Embryo mortality was increased only in the progeny of male mice in...
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