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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" dtd-version="1.4" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Теоретическая и прикладная экология</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">1995-4301</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2618-8406</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.25750/1995-4301-2026-1-177-188</article-id><article-categories><subj-group><subject>Other</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="ru">Оценка наследственной компоненты фторной экотоксической нагрузки</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Assessment of the hereditary component of fluoride ecotoxic load</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Стариченко</surname><given-names>В. И.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Starichenko</surname><given-names>V. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><email>starichenko@ipae.uran.ru</email><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9744-916X</contrib-id></contrib><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Plants and Animal Ecology UB RAS</institution><city xml:lang="en">Yekaterinburg</city><country xml:lang="en">Russia</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Уральского отделения РАН</institution><city xml:lang="ru">Екатеринбург</city><country xml:lang="ru">Россия</country></aff></aff-alternatives></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-03-25"><day>25</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><fpage>177</fpage><lpage>188</lpage><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.envjournal.ru/ari/v2026/v1/26119.pdf" xlink:title="http://www.envjournal.ru/ari/v2026/v1/26119.pdf">http://www.envjournal.ru/ari/v2026/v1/26119.pdf</self-uri><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="publication-004b171b-9eff-4102-85e4-992c5cfe4829.pdf" xlink:title="PDF"/><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Фтор – один из наиболее токсичных и широко распространённых промышленных загрязнителей природной среды. В экологических проблемах фторного загрязнения выявление наследственной компоненты его накопления играет особую роль как способствующей поддержанию его уровня в ряду поколений. Однако факторы индивидуальной изменчивости аккумуляции фтора у млекопитающих, в частности, наследственная составляющая вариабельности накопления, не выявлены. Это обусловлено методологическими особенностями исследования параметров депонирования фтора, недоступных для изучения в прямых экологических наблюдениях. Экспериментальное исследование на лабораторных мышах позволяет оценить величину наследственной компоненты депонирования фтора. Исследовали накопление фтора у потомства трёх линий инбредных мышей (внутрилинейная корреляция) в фоновых условиях и после хронического поступления токсиканта. Использовался также вариант семейного анализа (внутрисемейная корреляция). Это классический подход к оценке наследственной изменчивости количественных признаков. Самки получали фтор с пищей в течение всего периода беременности и до 1,5-мес. возраста потомства. При оценке учитывали эффект влияния пола животных и величины помёта в семье. Аккумуляция фтора у отдельных индивидов различалась в некоторых экспериментальных группах в 3–6,5 раз. В то же время особенности депонирования фтора оказались характерными для целых семейств. Общая наследственная составляющая (внутрилинейная и внутрисемейная) кумуляции фтора сопоставима с наследственной корреляцией морфологических признаков, имеющих высокую наследственную детерминацию развития (R = 0,50–0,56, p &lt; 0,0001 и R = 0,45–0,53–0,58, p &lt; 0,0001 соответственно). В зависимости от варианта анализа (вся выборка или только опытная группа), семейная составляющая изменчивости сопоставима или значительно выше (в 2–3 раза) эффекта линейной принадлежности животных. Для фоновых уровней фтора наследственная обусловленность его депонирования статистически незначима. Полученные результаты могут быть экстраполированы на полевых грызунов.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="summary"><p>Fluoride is one of the most toxic and widely spread industrial pollutants of the environment. Identifying the hereditary component of fluoride accumulation plays a special role in environmental issues of fluoride pollution, as contributing to maintaining its level across generations. However, the factors of individual variability of fluoride accumulation in mammals, in particular, the hereditary component of accumulation variability, have not been identified. This is due to the methodological features of studying fluoride deposition parameters that are inaccessible in direct environmental observations. An experimental study on laboratory mice allows us to estimate the magnitude of the hereditary component of fluoride deposition. The fluoride accumulation was studied in the progeny of three strains of inbred mice (intrastrain correlation) against the background conditions and following chronic intake of the toxicant. The variant of the family analysis (intrafamily correlation) was also used. It is a classical approach to the hereditary variation of quantitative traits assessment. Fluoride entered the female mice body with food during the whole gestation period and up to the age of 1.5 month of the progeny. The assessment was performed with the control of the animal sex and litter size effect. Individual parameters of fluoride accumulation differed in certain experimental groups by 3–6.5 times. At the same time the specifics of fluoride accumulation was typical of the entire families. Combined hereditary component (intrastrain and intrafamily) of the fluoride accumulation was comparable with the hereditary correlation of morphological characteristics with known hereditary dependence of development (R = 0.50–0.56, p &lt; 0.0001 and R = 0.45–0.53–0.58, p &lt; 0.0001 respectively). Notably, the family component of the variability depending on the analysis option (the entire sample or just the experimental group) is comparable and exceeds the animal’s strain effect by 2–3 times. For background fluoride level the hereditary dependence of its deposition is statistically insignificant. The results obtained can be extrapolated to field rodents.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>familial analysis</kwd><kwd>environmental toxicology</kwd><kwd>fluoride</kwd><kwd>bone tissue</kwd><kwd>inbred mouse strains</kwd><kwd>ANOVA</kwd><kwd>intraclass correlation coefficient</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>экологическая токсикология</kwd><kwd>фтор</kwd><kwd>костная ткань</kwd><kwd>линейные мыши</kwd><kwd>дисперсионный анализ</kwd><kwd>коэффициент внутриклассовой корреляции</kwd><kwd>метод семейного анализа</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This study was performed within the frameworks of state contract of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (project No. 122021000077–6).</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><ref id="ref1"><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xml:lang="en">1. Faccini J.M. Fluoride and bone // Calcif. Tissue Res. 1969. V. 3. 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