After the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, populations of local domestic dogs, Canis canis, suffered from environmental pollution originating from the radiation. This disaster made the environment highly mutagenic, leading to various evolutionary processes such as bottlenecks, directional selection, and higher rates of mutation resulting in evolutionary trajectories that differ from unexposed animals[1].
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