Environmental disasters offer the unique opportunity for landscape-scale ecological and
evolutionary studies that are not possible in the laboratory or small experimental plots. The …

Human actions are altering ecosystems worldwide. Among human‐released pollutants,
ionizing radiation arises as a rare but potentially devastating threat to natural systems. The …

Ionizing radiation resistance occurs among many phylogenetic groups and its mechanisms
remain incompletely understood. Tolerances to acute and chronic irradiation do not always …

Gut microbiota play an important role in host health. Yet, the drivers and patterns of
microbiota imbalance (dysbiosis) in wild animals remain largely unexplored. One …

Gut microbiota composition depends on many factors, although the impact of environmental
pollution is largely unknown. We used amplicon sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes to …

Telomeres, the protective structures at the ends of chromosomes, can be shortened when
individuals are exposed to stress. In some species, the enzyme telomerase is expressed in …

Wildlife inhabiting environments contaminated by radionuclides face putative detrimental
effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, with biomarkers such as an increase in DNA …

Ionizing radiation has the potential to damage organic molecules and decrease the health
and survival of wildlife. The accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant (Ukraine, 1986) led to …

Nuclear accidents underpin the need to quantify the ecological mechanisms which
determine injury to ecosystems from chronic low‐dose radiation. Here, we tested the …

Altered copy number of certain highly repetitive regions of the genome, such as satellite
DNA within heterochromatin and ribosomal RNA loci (rDNA), is hypothesized to help …