RESEARCH ON IRRADIATION OF NATURAL POPULATIONS OF SELECTED VERTEBRATES. Final Scientific Report
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4102162
Efforts were made to determine the effects on natural populations of periodic x irradiation of males at levels known to induce significant numbers of deleterious mutations. Populations of three mammals, the deer-mouse, the wood- mouse, and the house mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus, P. leucopus, and Mus musculus), and one amphibian, the mexican toad (Bufo valliceps), were selected because of availability and of variability in ecological parameters. The main populational parameter measured was size of the annual breeding population, which necessarily made each sub-project a relatively long-term one. The results were consistent from species to species in showing that all of the populations were able to maintain themselves against the pressures of increased mutation rate under the ecological conditions under which the studies were made. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Texas. Univ., Austin
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-008113
- OSTI ID:
- 4102162
- Report Number(s):
- TID-19982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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