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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 210 pp 35–58Cite as

The Effects of Radionuclides on Animal Behavior

Part of the Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology book series (RECT,volume 210)

Abstract

Behavior refers to the observable or measurable actions or reactions of an organism (movements, physiological alterations, verbal expression, etc.) in response to a stimulus originating from its environment (Bone and Moore 2008). Animals express several types of behavior including sexual, reproductive, social (aggression, maternal relationship, etc.), activity (locomotion, feeding, defence and avoidance responses) and cognitive behaviors (attention, learning, memory) (Zala and Penn 2004).

Keywords

  • Behaviour
  • Radionuclides
  • Metals
  • Chemoreception
  • Neurological dysfunction
  • Rodents
  • Fish
  • Humans

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The authors are very grateful to Prof. Tom Hinton for his reading and improving this manuscript. The work was partly supported by the French National Research Agency, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the ENVIRHOM research program supported by the Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN).

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    Beatrice Gagnaire

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    Christelle Adam-Guillermin

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Gagnaire, B., Adam-Guillermin, C., Bouron, A., Lestaevel, P. (2011). The Effects of Radionuclides on Animal Behavior. In: Whitacre, D. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 210. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 210. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7615-4_2

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