Chernobyl birds have smaller brains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Bonisoli Alquati, Andea ^b   Rudolfsen, Geir ^c   Mousseau, Timothy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AUTHORITY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; UKRAINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RADIATION INJURIES; UKRAINE;

EID: 79951663714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016862     Document Type: Article

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