ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INFLUENCE ON PECULIARITIES OF RANA TEMPORARIA LINNAEUS, 1758 (ANURA, RANIDAE) ONTOGENY

Oleksii Marushchak,Dmitry Zhytnyk,Oksana Nekrasova,Oleksandra Oskyrko,Vitalina Voitenko

doi:10.5755/j01.erem.75.2.21090

Abstract

This work is dedicated to study of electromagnetic irradiation influence on peculiarities of its impact on linear features and mortality of European grass frog tadpoles. Among the effects observed the intensification of growth and mortality were detected according to the increasing of number of irradiation sessions. Also the presence of morphological abnormalities in post-metamorphic individuals was assessed. The experiment showed that electromagnetic irradiation did’t cause the mass occurrence of morphological anomalies. The preliminary results of the work show that this field of experiment is promising and further investigations should be conducted. The results of the experiment can be used in herpetoculture while creating of stable breeding stock of amphibians, development of nature conservation management-plans for objects of nature reserve fund as well as in studying of impact of electromagnetic field on living organisms in general.

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IntroductionWith no doubt humanity’s use of modern devices that operate at high frequencies such as 3 MHz – 3,000 GHz (mobile phones, microwaves, physiotherapy apparatus, radios, etc.) has increased in recent few decades and the progressive growth in the number of cancer and congenital disorders among human beings are a matter of fact
With no doubt humanity’s use of modern devices that operate at high frequencies such as 3 MHz – 3,000 GHz has increased in recent few decades and the progressive growth in the number of cancer and congenital disorders among human beings are a matter of fact
The main aim of the work was a preliminary study of the effects of electromagnetic field irradiation commonly used in city radio stations (22 MHz) on the ontogenesis of the European grass frog, on mortality level and linear growth of its tadpoles

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Introduction

With no doubt humanity’s use of modern devices that operate at high frequencies such as 3 MHz – 3,000 GHz (mobile phones, microwaves, physiotherapy apparatus, radios, etc.) has increased in recent few decades and the progressive growth in the number of cancer and congenital disorders among human beings are a matter of fact. The study of the effects of environmental factors on the progress of embryonic and post-embryonic ontogenesis is an important trend in modern investigations. Experiments with high frequency irradiation (900 MHz) have yielded interesting effects of electromagnetic radiation on bird and fish ontogeny (Romaniuk et al, 2011; Jyoti, 2014; Orizaola et al, 2014; Tsybulin, 2016)

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