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One might also adopt some basic principles of linebreeding: Son and daughter of common ancestor is good; one of either and two of the other is better; a brother and sister are best; and one of either and two of the other are utopian.
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I will correct that error with a mini-tutorial on linebreeding.
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Hopefully, both definition of linebreeding and effective techniques for using it will be clear.
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Flying Fox does double duty pertaining to sex-balanced linebreeding.
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This is a drop in the proverbial bucket compared with all there is to know about linebreeding but it is more than enough to do some serious damage.
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Like many other pedigree pundits, I delineated the key linebreeding crosses in her pedigree as if their significance to the reader was a given.
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The pedigree of would make a poster child for clever linebreeding.
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\tab "Anyhow, our kids could discuss chromosome reduction and the merits and demerits of linebreeding as knowledgeably as my own contemporaries when I was a kid could discuss the World Series -" \par
Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973
erinmckean commented on the word linebreeding
The proliferation of new breeds is in part a product of “linebreeding,” a type of inbreeding in which a close relative occurs more than once in a puppy’s pedigree. Vice
February 22, 2016