Genetics, evolution and radiation : crossing borders, the interdisciplinary legacy of Nikolay W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky / Victoria L. Korogodina, Carmel E. Mothersill, Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov, Colin B. Seymour, editors.
Korogodina, V. L., editor.; Mothersill, C. (Carmel), editor.; Inge-Vechtomov, Sergey G., editor.; Seymour, C., editor.
2016
QH429.2.T54
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Title Genetics, evolution and radiation : crossing borders, the interdisciplinary legacy of Nikolay W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky / Victoria L. Korogodina, Carmel E. Mothersill, Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov, Colin B. Seymour, editors.
ISBN 9783319488387 (electronic book)
3319488384 (electronic book)
9783319488370
3319488376
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48838-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-48838-7 doi
Call Number QH429.2.T54
Dewey Decimal Classification 576.5092
Summary 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 ℓ́ℓStories told by himselfℓ́ℓ, 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: ℓ́ℓScience should not be approached with the ferocity of wild animalsℓ́ℓ. 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.
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Added Author Korogodina, V. L., editor.
Mothersill, C. (Carmel), editor.
Inge-Vechtomov, Sergey G., editor.
Seymour, C., editor.
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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. .

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