Radiobiology and Environmental Security

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Hypermutability Associated with Double-Strand Break Repair....Pages 1-11
A Test of Kimura’s Mutation-Rate Conjecture....Pages 13-18
Micro-algae as a Model System for Studying of Genotype Resistance to Oxidative Stress and Adaptive Response....Pages 19-30
Flavonoid Biosynthesis Genes in Wheat and Wheat-Alien Hybrids: Studies into Gene Regulation in Plants with Complex Genomes....Pages 31-41
Implications for Human and Environmental Health of Low Doses of Radiation....Pages 43-51
Role of Epigenetic Changes in Radiation-Induced Genome Instability....Pages 53-66
Radiation and Terror....Pages 67-69
Bystander Effects and Adaptive Responses Modulate In Vitro and In Vivo Biological Responses to Low Dose Ionizing Radiation....Pages 71-86
Inter-plant Communication of Genome Instability in Radiation Exposed Arabidopsis....Pages 87-97
Direct and Reverse Bystander Effect Between Irradiated and Unirradiated Organisms: The Modulating Role of Chemosignalling in Ecology....Pages 99-109
Molecular-Genetic Analysis of Genetic Predisposition to Myocardial Infarction and Comparison of Risk Factor Population Rates in Different Countries....Pages 111-125
Genomic Instability in the Offspring of Irradiated Parents....Pages 127-139
Low Dose Responses of Bone Marrow to X-Rays In Vivo....Pages 141-151
Pheromones and Adaptive Bystander-Mutagenesis in Mice....Pages 153-161
Statistical Model of Adaptation Risk Assessment of Chromosomal Instability....Pages 163-175
Effects of Bystander Factors Induced In Vivo in Blood of People Affected by Chernobyl Accident....Pages 177-185
Association Study of the Frequencies of Spontaneous and Induced Chromosome Aberrations in Human Lymphocytes....Pages 187-198
Radioecology of the Future: The Problem of Final Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes....Pages 199-218
Reproductive Effects from Chronic, Multigenerational, Low Dose Rate Exposures to Radiation....Pages 219-232
Aquatic Biota within the Chernobyl Accident Exclusion Zone: Consequences of the Long-Term Radiation Exposure....Pages 233-244
Endless Pursuit of DNA Double-Strand Break Ends....Pages 245-257
Facultativeness Principle and Generalized Approach to the Genome and Hereditary Variability....Pages 259-268
Recent Inserts of Transposable Elements Affect Structure and Functions of Human Genome....Pages 269-296
Ecological Risk Assessment to Benthic Biocenoses....Pages 297-305
Molecular Changes in Radiation Induced Thyroid Carcinomas in Mice....Pages 307-316
Study of Arabidopsis thaliana Patterns of Experimental Mutational Variability....Pages 317-330
Methods for Predicting 137 Cs Contamination Levels of Soil Suitable to Obtain Plant and Fodder Products in Compliance with the Adopted Standards....Pages 331-338
Effects of Chronic Irradiation in Plant Populations....Pages 339-352
Reduced Rb1 Expression Causes Impaired Genome Stability in Bone-Cells and Predispose for Radiation-Induced Osteosarcoma....Pages 353-364
Biophysics of Heavy Ions....Pages 365-370
De Novo Mutations in Y-Chromosome STR Loci Revealed in Paternal Lineages of Siberian Tundra Nentsi Population....Pages 371-380
Effects of Chronic Gamma Irradiation on Reproduction in the Earthworm Eisenia fetida ....Pages 381-388