Chronic exposure to low-dose radiation at Chernobyl favours adaptation to oxidative stress in birds

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1387-1403

  Galván, Ismael ^a,e   Bonisoli Alquati, Andrea ^b   Jenkinson, Shanna ^b   Ghanem, Ghanem ^c   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^d   Mousseau, Timothy A ^b   Møller, Anders P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chernobyl; Ionizing radiation; Oxidative stress; Pheomelanin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908881201     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12283     Document Type: Article

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