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Chernobyl's Stray Dogs Are Genetically DistinctâBut Radiation Isnât the Reason

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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have concluded that the genetic differences between dogs in Chernobyl City and the ones near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ( NPP ) were likely not driven by radiation-induced mutations.

Evolutionary pressures caused by the nuclear reactor disaster could have still driven the genetic difference between the city dogs and the NPP dogs.

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