ArticleBMC evolutionary biology2015
Spatiotemporal abnormality dynamics of the pale grass blue butterfly: three years of monitoring (2011-2013) after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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- Imaging Plate Autoradiography for Ingested Anthropogenic Cesium-137 in Butterfly Bodies: Implications for the Biological Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ingestional Toxicity of Radiation-Dependent Metabolites of the Host Plant for the Pale Grass Blue Butterfly: A Mechanism of Field Effects of Radioactive Pollution in Fukushima.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Metabolomic Profiles of the Creeping Wood SorrelLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A review of the impact on the ecosystem after ionizing irradiation: wildlife population.International journal of radiation biology · 2022Review
- Metabolomic Response of the Creeping Wood SorrelLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Observation of morphological abnormalities in silkworm pupae after feedingScientific reports · 2020Article
- Dispersibility of the Pale Grass Blue ButterflyInsects · 2020Article
- Overwintering States of the Pale Grass Blue ButterflyInsects · 2019Article
- Tolerance of High Oral Doses of Nonradioactive and Radioactive Caesium Chloride in the Pale Grass Blue ButterflyInsects · 2019Article
- Developmental and hemocytological effects of ingesting Fukushima's radiocesium on the cabbage white butterfly Pieris rapae.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Decreased blood cell counts were not observed in cattle living in the "difficult-to-return zone" of the Fukushima nuclear accident.Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho · 2019Article
- Carotenoid distribution in wild Japanese tree frogs (Hyla japonica) exposed to ionizing radiation in Fukushima.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Ingestional and transgenerational effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly.Journal of radiation research · 2015Review
- Body size distributions of the pale grass blue butterfly in Japan: Size rules and the status of the Fukushima population.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundLong-term monitoring of the biological impacts of the radioactive pollution caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011 is required to understand what has occurred in organisms living in the polluted areas. Here, we investigated spatial and temporal changes of the abnormality rate (AR) in both field-caught adult populations and laboratory-reared offspring populations of the pale grass blue butterfly, Zizeeria maha, which has generation time of approximately one month. We monitored 7 localities (Fukushima, Motomiya, Hirono, Iwaki, Takahagi, Mito, and Tsukuba) every spring and fall over 3 years (2011-2013).
resultsThe adult ARs of these localities quickly increased and peaked in the fall of 2011, which was not observed in non-contaminated localities. In the offspring generation, the total ARs, which include deaths at the larval, prepupal, and pupal stages and morphological abnormalities at the adult stage, peaked either in the fall of 2011 or in the spring of 2012, with much higher levels than those of the parent field populations, suggesting that high incidence of deaths and abnormalities might have occurred in the field populations. Importantly, the elevated ARs of the field and offspring populations settled back to a normal level by the fall of 2012 and by the spring of 2013, respectively. Similar results were obtained not only in the spatiotemporal dynamics of the number of individuals caught per minute but also in the temporal dynamics of the correlation coefficient between the adult abnormality rate and the ground radiation dose or the distance from the Power Plant.
conclusionsThese results demonstrated an occurrence and an accumulation of adverse physiological and genetic effects in early generations, followed by their decrease and leveling off at a normal level, providing the most comprehensive record of biological dynamics after a nuclear accident available today. This study also indicates the importance of considering generation time and adaptive evolution in evaluating the biological impacts of artificial pollution in wild organisms.
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