Genetic disorders in house mouse germ cells after the Chernobyl catastrophe

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 381, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-103

  Pomerantseva, M D ^a   Ramaiya, L K ^a   Chekhovich, A V ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Abnormal sperm head; Chernobyl disaster; Embryonic mortality; Genetic effects; Germ cell; House mouse; Recessive lethal mutation; Reciprocal translocation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MORTALITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GERM CELL; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MUTATION; POWER PLANTS; PREGNANCY; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; UKRAINE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030844229     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(97)00155-3     Document Type: Article

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