Elevated Frequency of Cataracts in Birds from Chernobyl

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Mousseau, Timothy Alexander ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; YEARLING;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CATARACT; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; INCIDENCE; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 84880831984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066939     Document Type: Article

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