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Avagpingham t1_iqtoaq1 wrote

I can't think of any protective quality melanin would have from ionizing radiation. It is more likely that some other protective trait is adjacent to the genes causing darker frogs or that a mutation causing darker frogs was triggered by the radiation and happens to be advantageous locally. (Nuclear engineer with minor in health physics and biology). However, I would be open to be corrected.

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