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Radioadaptation of rodents in the zone of local radioactive contamination (Kyshtim Accident, Russia): 50 years on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2009

J. Barescut ,
E. Grigorkina  and
G. Olenev
E. Grigorkina
Affiliation:
Institute of Plant & Animal Ecology, RAS Ural Branch, 8 Marta Str., 202, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russia
G. Olenev
Affiliation:
Institute of Plant & Animal Ecology, RAS Ural Branch, 8 Marta Str., 202, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russia
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Abstract

Results of radioecological investigations of rodents having different ecological specialization – wood and field mice, northern red-backed voles and mole-voles to acute (laboratory experiment) and chronic (long-term inhabiting the East Ural Radioactive Trace – EURT) irradiation are summarized. These species are greatly distinguished by a way of life, a migratory activity, an average life span etc. Numerous immunological, hematological and cytogenetical disturbances were found in more radioresistant wood and field mice and northern red-backed voles inhabiting the EURT zone (density of soil pollution by 90Sr-18.5 MBq/m2=500 Ci/km2) as compared with the reference samples. On the contrary there were no pathological shifts in more radiosensitive mole-voles from the more radioactively contaminated site (90Sr-37 MBq/m2=1000 Ci/km2. The absorbed dozes during the life for the mole-voles from the EURT zone were significantly higher (in 30 times) than these ones for mice and voles. These data testify about the possibility of radioadaptation in a series of generations in mole-voles that developed due to their ecophysiological features and isolation of settlement in the radiocontaminated zone. Mice and voles form a flowing population and slip off the prolonged influence of a damaging factor, this circumstance prevents the development of radioadaptation.

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Radioprotection , Volume 44 , Issue 5: ECORAD 2008 - Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity , 2009 , pp. 129 - 134
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© EDP Sciences, 2009

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