Numerous organisms have shown an ability to survive and reproduce under low-dose
ionizing radiation arising from natural background radiation or from nuclear accidents. In a …

Random and subtle deviations from bilateral symmetry (fluctuating asymmetry) have long
been of interest to biologists who wish to study the susceptibility of organisms to changes in …

Abstract Purpose On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power plant underwent a
catastrophic failure leading to core explosions and open-air fires. On 11 March 2011, a …

1. Body size is highly correlated with physiological traits, fitness, and trophic interactions.
These traits are subject to change if there are widespread reductions of body size with …

A quantitative analysis of wing variation in grasshoppers can help us to understand how
environmental heterogeneity affects the phenotypic patterns of insects. In this study …

The assessment of the fluctuating asymmetry based on measurement of the parameters of
left and right parts of silver birch (Betula pendula (L.) Roth.) leaves and relative sizes of pairs …

Background Long-term monitoring of the biological impacts of the radioactive pollution
caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011 is required to understand what …

One important public concern in Japan is the potential health effects on animals and
humans that live in the Tohoku-Kanto districts associated with the ingestion of foods …

According to the results of recent studies, parental exposure to ionizing radiation not only
leads to mutation induction in the germline of irradiated animals but also affects their non …

In Chernobyl, chronic exposure to radioactive contaminants has a variety of deleterious
effects on exposed organisms, including genetic damage and mutation accumulation …