Chernobyl exposure alters the gut bacteria of wild animals
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 09:13
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the Universities of Oulu and Jyväskylä, together with their collaborators in the U.S. and France, have shown that wild animals living in areas contaminated by radioactive material have a different community of bacteria within their digestive system (the gut microbiome) compared with animals that do not live in areas affected by an increase in radiation.