Genome reduction in a hemiclonal frog Rana esculenta from radioactively contaminated areas

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1123-1125

  Vinogradov, Alexander E ^a   Chubinishvili, Alexander T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FROG; GAMMA RADIATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GENOME; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RANA ESCULENTA; RUSSIA; UKRAINE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA ESCULENTA; RANA LESSONAE; RANA RIDIBUNDA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0033053627     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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