High frequency of albinism and tumours in free-living birds around Chernobyl

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 757, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-59

  Moller A P ^a   Bonisoli Alquati, A ^b   Mousseau, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Albinism; Chernobyl; Population decline; Radiation; Tumours

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEATHER; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RELIABILITY;

EID: 84891510715     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2013.04.019     Document Type: Article

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