United States – Science Advances magazine indicated that a scientific team discovered that the genome of stray dogs located near the Chernobyl station acquired a unique structure that differs from the structure of the DNA of other dog breeds.
Science Advances magazine indicated that a scientific team discovered that the genome of stray dogs located in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl station acquired a unique structure that differs from the structure of the DNA of other dog breeds.
The magazine stated that an international scientific team of geneticists studied DNA samples of more than three hundred stray dogs living in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear plant, and came to the conclusion that their genome had acquired a unique structure, unlike the DNA structure of all other dog breeds.
According to the researchers: “Comparison of the DNA of stray dogs with the genetic structure of different breeds of domestic and feral dogs from other regions revealed that dogs near Chernobyl had a significantly different genetic structure than dogs far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.”
According to an international team of geneticists led by Timothy Musso, a professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia (USA): The study and its observations will help ecologists and biologists understand the impact of continuous high radiation on the evolution of animal populations and their adaptation to living in such an environment.
Source: TASS.
