Chernobyl Publications
 

 
Dr. Ronald Keith Chesser
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences Director                                          Center for Environmental Radiation Studies Director                             Interdisciplinary Program in Biological Informatics
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Chernobyl Publications: 
Fisher, S. K., C. E. Dallas, C. H. Jagoe, M. H. Smith, I. L. Brisbin, Jr., and R. K. Chesser.  1994.  Sources of error associated with sample collection and preparation of largemouth bass red blood cells for flow cytometric analysis.  Cell Biology and Toxicology 10:145-153.
 
Fisher, S., C. H. Jagoe, C. E. Dallas, R. K. Chesser, M. H. Smith, and I. L. Brisbin, Jr. 1993. Assessment of genetic damage as a biomarker in the remediation of contaminated or polluted sites. Pages 629-634, In, Meeting The Challenge. Environmental Remediation Conference. United States Department of Energy.
 
Sugg, D. W., R. K. Chesser, J. A. Brooks, and B. T. Grasman.  1994.  The association of DNA damage to concentrations of mercury and radiocesium in largemouth bass.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 14:661-668.
 
Dallas, C. E., C. H. Jagoe, S. K. Fisher, K. A. Holloman, R. K. Chesser, and M. H. Smith.  1995.  Evaluation of genotoxicity in wild organisms due to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  In, Animal World and Ecosystems in Conditions of Radioactive Pollution. Ecology of Industrial Regions 1:44-54.
 
Baker, R.J., M.J. Hamilton, R.A. Van Den Bussche, L.E. Wiggins, D.W. Sugg, M.H. Smith, M.D. Lomakin, S.P. Gaschak, E.G. Bundova, G.A. Rudenskaya, and R.K. Chesser.  1996.  Small mammals from the most radioactive sites near the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.  Journal of Mammalogy  77:155-170.
 
Baker, R.J., R.A. Van Den Bussche, A.J. Wright, L.E. Wiggins, M.J. Hamilton, E.P. Reat, M.H. Smith, M.D. Lomakin, and R.K. Chesser.  1996.  High Levels of genetic change in rodents of Chernobyl.  Nature  380:707-708.
 
Chesser, R. K. and D. W. Sugg. 1996. Toxicants as selective agents in population and community dynamics. Pages 293-317, In (Newman, M. and C. H. Jagoe, eds.), Ecotoxicology. A Hierarchical Treatment. CRC Lewis Press.
 
Chesser, R. K. and R. J. Baker.  1996.  Life Continues at Chernobyl.  La Recherche  286:30-31. (in French).
Dallas, C. E., C. H. Jagoe, S. K. Fisher, K. A. Holloman, R. K. Chesser, and M. H. Smith.  1996.  Evaluation of genotoxicity in wild organisms due to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  In, Animal World and Ecosystems in Conditions of Radioactive Pollution. Nauka Science Publishers, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.  (In Russian).
 
Sugg, D.W., J. W. Bickham, J.A. Brooks, M. D. Lomakin, C. H. Jagoe, C. E. Dallas, M.H. Smith, R. J. Baker, and R. K. Chesser.  1996.  DNA damage and radiocesium in channel catfish from Chernobyl.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry  15:1057-1063.
 
Chesser, R. K. and R. J. Baker.  1996.  Effective sizes and dynamics of uniparentally and diparentally inherited genes.  Genetics  144:1225-1235.
 
Lingenfelser, S. K., C. E. Dallas, C. H. Jagoe, R. K. Chesser, M. H. Smith, and M. D. Lomakin.  1997.  Variation in blood cell DNA in Carassius carassius from ponds near Chernobyl, Ukraine.  Ecotoxicology 6:187-203.
 
Lingenfelser, S. F., C. E. Dallas, C. H. Jagoe, M. H. Smith, I. L. Brisbin, Jr. and R. K. Chesser.  1997.  Variation in DNA content of blood cells of largemouth bass in selected aquatic ecosystems in the southeast United States.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry  16:2136-2143.
 
Baker R. J., R. A. Van Den Bussche, A. J. Wright, L. E. Wiggins, M. J. Hamilton, E. P. Reat, M. H. Smith, M. D. Lomakin, and R. K. Chesser.  1997. High levels of genetic change in rodents of Chernobyl.  Nature  390: 100.
 
Jagoe, C.H., C. E. Dallas, R. K. Chesser, M. H. Smith, S. K. Lingenfelser, J. T. Lingenfelser, K. Holloman, and M. D.. Lomakin.  1998.  Contamination near Chernobyl: radiocesium, lead and mercury in fish and sediment radiocesium from waters within the 10 km zone.  Ecotoxicology 7: 1-9.
 
Jagoe, C. H., R. K. Chesser, M. H. Smith, M. D. Lomakin, S. K. Lingenfelser, and C. E. Dallas.  1998. Levels of cesium, mercury and lead in fish, and cesium in pond sediments in an inhabited region of the Ukraine near Chernobyl.  Environmental Pollution 98: 223-232.
 
Chesser, R. K.  1998.  Heteroplasmy and organelle gene dynamics.  Genetics 150:1309-1327.
 
Lingenfelser, S.F., J. T. Lingenfelser, K. Holloman, C. H. Jagoe, J. A. Kind, R. K. Chesser, M. H. Smith, and C. E. Dallas.  1998.  Flow cytometric analysis of erythrocyte and leukocyte DNA in fish from Chernobyl-contaminated ponds in the Ukraine.  Ecotoxicology 7:211-219.
 
Theodorakis, C.W., J. W. Bickham, T. Elbl, L. R. Shugart, and R. K. Chesser.  1998.  Genetics of radionuclide-contaminated mosquitofish populations and homology between Gambusia affinis and G. holbrooki.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17:1992-1998.
 
Nekrutenko, A., K. D. Makova, R. K. Chesser, and R. J. Baker.  1999.  Representational differences analysis to distinguish cryptic species.  Molecular Ecology 8:1235-1238.
 
Baker, R. J., K. D. Makova and R. K. Chesser.  1999.  Microsatellites indicate high frequency of multiple paternity in genus Apodemus (Rodentia).  Molecular Ecology  8:107-111.
 
DeWoody, J. A., R. K. Chesser and R. J. Baker. 1999.  A translocated mitochondrial cytochrome b pseudogene in voles (Rodentia: Microtus).  Journal of Molecular Evolution  48:380-382.
 
Makova, K. D., J. C. Patton, E. Yu. Krysanov, R. K. Chesser, and R. J. Baker.  1999.  Microsatellite markers in wood mouse and striped field mouse (genus Apodemus).  Molecular Ecology  7:247-255.
 
Chesser, R. K., D.W. Sugg, A. J. DeWoody, C.H. Jagoe, M.H. Smith, M.D. Lomakin, R.A. Van Den Bussche, C.E. Dallas, K. Holloman, F.W. Whicker, S.P. Gaschak, I.V. Chizhevsky, V.V. Lyabik, E.G. Buntova and R.J. Baker.  2000. Concentrations and Dose Rate Estimates of 134, 137Cesium and 90Strontium in Small Mammals at Chornobyl, Ukraine.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry  19:305-312.
 
Baker, R. J. and R. K. Chesser.  2000.  The Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster and Subsequent Creation of a Wildlife Preserve.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19:1231-1232.
 
Baker, R.J., J. A. DeWoody, A. J. Wright and R. K. Chesser.  2000 Utility of heteroplasmy in genotoxic studies: an example from Chornobyl.  Ecotoxicology  8:301-309.
 
Matson, C. W., B. E. Rodgers, R. K. Chesser and R. J. Baker.  2000.  Genetic diversity of Clethrionomys glareolus populations from highly contaminated sites in the Chornobyl region.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry  19:2130-2135.
 
Baker, R.J., A.M. Bickham, M. Bondarkov, S. P. Gaschak, C.W. Matson, B.E. Rodgers, J.K. Wickliffe and R. K. Chesser.  2001.  Consequences of polluted environments on population structure:  The bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) at Chornobyl.  Ecotoxicology.  10:211-216.
 
Rodgers, B. E., J. K. Wickliffe, C. J. Phillips, R. K. Chesser, and R. J. Baker.  2001 . Experimental exposure of naïve bank voles, Clethrionomys glareolus, to the Chornobyl, Ukraine, environment:  A test of radioresistance.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry  20:1936-1941.
 
Chesser, R. K., B. E. Rodgers, J. K. Wickliffe, S. Gaschak, I. Chizhevsky, C. J. Phillips and R. J. Baker.  2001.  Accumulation of 137Cesium and 90Strontium from abiotic and biotic sources in rodents at Chornobyl, Ukraine. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry   20:1927-1935.
 
Wickliffe, J.K., R.K. Chesser, B.E. Rodgers, R.J. Baker.  2001.  Letter to Editor regarding Dubrova et al. 2000.  Mutation Research.  48:207-208.
 
Rodgers, B.E., R. K. Chesser, J. K. Wickliffe, C. J. Phillips and R. J. Baker.  2001.  Sub-chronic exposure of BALB and C57BL strains of Mus musculus to the radioactive environment of the Chornobyl exclusion zone.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 20:2830-2835.
 
Wiggins, L. E., R. A. Van Den Bussche, M. J. Hamilton, R. K. Chesser, and R. J. Baker.  2002.  Utility of chromosome position of heterochromatin as a biomarker of radiation-induced genetic damage:  A study of Chornobyl voles (Microtus sp.).  Ecotoxicology.  11:147-154.
 
Wickliffe, J.W., R.K. Chesser, B.E. Rodgers and R.J. Baker.  2002.  Assessing the genotoxicity of chronic, environmental irradiation by using mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) at Chornobyl, Ukraine.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 21:1249-1254.
 
Wickliffe, J. K., B. E. Rodgers, R. K. Chesser, C. J. Phillips, S. P. Gaschak, and R. J. Baker. Mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in laboratory mice experimentally enclosed in the radioactive Chornobyl environment.
Radiation Research. In Press.
 
Rodgers, B.E. & Baker, R.J. (2000). Micronucleus frequencies of Clethrionomys glareolus from the zones of high radiation at Chernobyl. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 19, 1644- 1648.
 
Wickliffe, J. K., Igor Chizhevsky, Mark B. O' Neill, Rodgers, B.E., Yelena V. Dunina-Barkovskaya, and R. J. Baker. Identifying Voucher Specimens Involving Risk:Shrews From Chernobyl, Ukraine 117-122, 2003