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Genetic response of bacterial spores to very heavy ions
K Baltschukat1, G Horneck, H Bucker
1DFVLR, Institut fur Flugmedizin, Koln, FRG.
Advances in Space Research : the Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
|January 1, 1986
Abstract:
Using spores of two Bacillus subtilis strains differing in repair capacity, we have studied repair and mutation induction in the spores after irradiation with very heavy ions up to uranium with specific particle energies up to 18.6 MeV/u. The results indicate that repair and mutation induction after heavy ion irradiation are closely related to each other and that both phenomena strongly depend on the atomic number and specific energy of the ions. The effects are discussed in comparison with results obtained after X-irradiation.