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  title info:
    title: Genetics, Evolution and Radiation
    sub title: Crossing Borders, The Interdisciplinary Legacy of Nikolay W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky
  name:
    name part: Korogodina, Victoria L.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mothersill, Carmel E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Inge-Vechtomov, Sergey G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Seymour, Colin B.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 558 p. 138 illus., 78 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is dedicated to the great scientist and outstanding individual Nikolay Wladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky. The book brings together a number of brief stories/essays about Timofeeff-Ressovsky including “Stories told by himself”, and scientific chapters addressing his major research areas: genetics, radiobiology, radiation ecology and epidemiology, and evolution. Timofeeff-Ressovsky contributed to several fields of biology and established new directions of scientific research. He often repeated the phrase, which would later become famous: “Science should not be approached with the ferocity of wild animals”. In keeping with that philosophy, the issues discussed here are still open. Each scientific part starts with a current review; the chapters present leading scientific schools and views. The main theme discussed in the genetics part is mutation variability in the context of linear (replication, transcription, translation) and conformational template processes, and its dependence on phylogenetic group. In turn, the radiobiology chapters focus on the reorganization of DNA, cell, and population variability under low-dose irradiation, sparking indirect processes and adaptive response. The radiation ecology and epidemiology parts present data on the consequences of nuclear plants and related accidents for ecological systems and human beings. Here some approaches to estimating radiation risks are also offered. Evolution laws are demonstrated in the genomic universe, plant-microbe symbiosis, stabilizing and destabilizing (directional) selection. The last essay demonstrates the principles of organization operating in local animal populations, which are approached as social organisms of complex systemic nature. The chapter 'Radiation-Induced Aging and Genetic Instability of Mesenchymal Stem Cells: An Issue for Late Health Effects?' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Preface from editors -- Contents -- 1. N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky: science without borders -- 2. Genetic processes -- 3. Radiobiology effects and mechanisms -- 4. Radiation in ecological systems -- 4A. Radiation and Man -- 5. Laws of evolution -- Name index -- Subject index. .
  note: edited by Victoria L. Korogodina, Carmel E Mothersill, Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov, Colin B. Seymour.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human genetics
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genetics
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genomics
  subject:
    topic: Plant genetics
  subject:
    topic: Animal genetics
  subject:
    topic: Radiation protection
  subject:
    topic: Radiation
    topic: Safety measures
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Genetics and Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection
  subject:
    topic: Human Genetics
  subject:
    topic: Plant Genetics & Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Genetics and Genomics
  classification: QH432
  classification: 591.35
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319488387
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    record creation date: 170329
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