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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 31, 期 4, 页码 281-289出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.005
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- CNRS (France)
- Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust
- American Council of Learned Societies
- College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina
Numerous organisms have shown an ability to survive and reproduce under low dose ionizing radiation arising from natural background radiation or from nuclear accidents. In a literature review, we found a total of 17 supposed cases of adaptation, mostly based on common garden experiments with organisms only deriving from typically two or three sampling locations. We only found one experimental study showing evidence of improved resistance to radiation. Finally, we examined studies for the presence of hormesis (i.e., superior fitness at low levels of radiation compared with controls and high levels of radiation), but found no evidence to support its existence. We conclude that rigorous experiments based on extensive sampling from multiple sites are required.
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