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 …

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 …

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

Growing evidence indicates that human activities are causing cancer rates to rise in both
human and wildlife populations. This is due to the inability of ancestral anti‐cancer defences …

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

Protein synthesis, or mRNA translation, is one of the most energy-consuming functions in
cells. Translation of mRNA into proteins is thus highly regulated by and integrated with …

In this paper the main results of long-term (2003–2016) observations on Scots pine
populations inhabiting sites affected by the Chernobyl accident are presented. Populations …

The concept of historic radiation doses associated with accidental radioactive releases and
their role in leading to radiation-induced non-targeted effects on affected wild animals are …

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 …

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