Genetic and Ecological Studies of Animals in Chernobyl and Fukushima

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• Genetic Studies

• Fukushima

• microsatellite

• de novo mutation rates

• Hirundo rustica

• Fukushima

• comparing microsatellite DNA fingerprints for parents and their offspring

• found mutation rates to be 2- to 10-fold higher for birds in Chernobyl

• little doubt that the contaminants associated with the Chernobyl disaster have generated genetic damage and increased mutation rates

• phenotypic effects that were correlated to the levels of genetic damage reported

• 33 studies

• heterogeneity

• 25 of the studies

• increase in mutations or cytogenetic abnormalities

• Only 4 of these studies investigated germline mutations

• Chernobyl

• Fukushima