Anhydrobiosis-Associated Nuclear DNA Damage and Repair in the Sleeping Chironomid: Linkage with Radioresistance

• Oleg Gusev ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oleg Gusev, Yuichi Nakahara

  Affiliations Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

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• Yuichi Nakahara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oleg Gusev, Yuichi Nakahara

  Current address: Animal Breeding and Reproduction Research Team, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, Japan

  Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Veronica Vanyagina,

  Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

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• Ludmila Malutina,

  Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia

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• Richard Cornette,

  Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Tetsuya Sakashita,

  Affiliation Microbeam Radiation Biology Group, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan

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• Nobuyuki Hamada,

  Affiliation Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory, Radiation Safety Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo, Japan

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• Takahiro Kikawada,

  Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Yasuhiko Kobayashi,

  Affiliation Microbeam Radiation Biology Group, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan

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• Takashi Okuda

  * E-mail: oku@affrc.go.jp

  Affiliation Anhydrobiosis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

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