Chronic radiation exposure at Chernobyl shows no effect on genetic diversity in the freshwater crustacean, Asellus aquaticus thirty years on

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• radiation exposure 80%
• genetic diversity 72%
• crustacean 66%
• genetic differentiation 35%
• dose 34%
• rate 18%
• biota 17%
• effect 15%
• contaminated area 11%
• rodent 9%
• mutation 9%
• bird 7%
• risk assessment 7%
• contamination 6%
• lake 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• Asellus aquaticus 100%
• freshwater crustaceans 99%
• Ukraine 74%
• genetic variation 40%
• dosage 16%
• Belarus 9%
• environmental assessment 7%
• organisms 7%
• mutation rate 7%
• environmental impact 6%
• long term effects 6%
• rodents 5%
• lakes 5%