Today there is not one person who does not know who are the mutants.Even children have heard about these creatures.Some say about them ironically, the other - with caution, some believe in their existence, others are skeptical.Try to understand whether there are mutants in fact, and if so, where they are.
Where did the fish mutant in our world
the Internet and the media increasingly began full of reports about that in different parts of the world people are discovering creatures whose appearance is different from the normal and usual to us.Ugly animals, fish mutants, people with genetic disorders appear and fill our planet.Today, no one is surprised by the existence of ugly inhabitants of the Earth.Special boom of their occurrence happened after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.Then it began to emerge the first information that the bodies of water in cities located in the NPP were found fish mutants.Pripyat - one of these settlements, the level of radiation that led to the modification of living organisms.
mutation fish
most dangerous for the nature of the mutations are genetic.Because even after the removal or disappearance of the factors that caused it to spread, it will be inherited.So, in natural waters of our country often find larvae of fish with two mouths, three eyes, with two heads, and even without the internal organs.Usually these fish mutants do not survive to maturity.But among them viable despite their existing deviation.
in the Volga River basin, for example, has more than 50 mutations of fish.These individuals found irregularities in pigmentation scale and serious changes in the blood.And in the Moscow River external deformities and diseases of certain species of fish reach 100%.
causes and types of mutations in fish
Ichthyologists different countries, concerned about this situation, mutation studied fish in the basins of different rivers and came to the conclusion that the modifications do not occur only because of the chemical attack.Causes of mutations in inhabitants of reservoirs may also be and adverse biological effects.For example, the emergence of extra fins in fish is associated with damage to the eggs of parasitic microorganisms.
What deviations detected in fish in mutation?
Genetics was established such a thing as fenodevianty which means creatures with a deviation from the normal appearance.
Fenodevianty different scales multiple displacements, strains and mopsovidnostyu cranial bones, fins deformities and frequent lack of, the reduction and underdevelopment of the gill cover, fusion of vertebral abnormalities in the structure of the internal organs.
So, off the coast of Japan swim terrible creatures that have the head of pink salmon, shark jaws and body eel.The researchers suggested that these fish mutants appeared as a result of exposure to radiation from the destroyed "Fukushima".
Chernobyl finds
fenodevianty in artificial reservoirs are the result of inbreeding.If the number of specimens is increased in the natural environment, that is associated with the presence in rivers teratogenic and mutagenic substances.
example, fish mutants in Chernobyl have such a deviation as curvature of the spine.This is due to exposure to radiation and toxins in the body.Adults caught with such deformities often in Pripyat.
unexpected and terrible discoveries made by people in the reservoirs "exclusion zone" and other cities.This fish-monsters of enormous size, with a variety of abnormalities and growths.These hideous creation became overgrown with myths and stories.And someone specifically tells about the terrible monsters who live in Chernobyl, to intimidate us.
Ecological disaster
interesting and unexpected was the catch of the fishermen of the Rostov region.In Salt Lake, they caught a giant piranha weighing over 2 kg.As inhabitant of the rivers of South America came to the Russian lake, it remains a mystery.However, experts have suggested that the toothy fish released from the aquarium, and it is grown in captivity.But whether they speak the truth, or so calm residents can only guess.Perhaps they are right.But if the cause of the piranha - mutation, it is one of the signs of imminent danger to the inhabitants of the Earth.
Scientists say fish anomaly - it is an occasion to reflect, as the following could be the man himself.Water pollution radiation, mutagenic substances and chemical emissions - the beginning of an ecological catastrophe.It is only reasonable human activity is associated with water treatment, can save us from the serious danger and consequences.Fish Chernobyl mutants make us worried and in time to make a decision to eliminate this problem.
