Bloodline

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Bloodline table of the Hanoverian stallion Norfolk (G. Pusch)

In animal breeding, a bloodline is understood to mean those offspring that go back in a direct line to a progenitor or ancestor . Depending on whether the bloodline is defined by male or female animals, one speaks of a male or female bloodline.

Blood line tables ( English reverse pedigrees ) were used to represent blood lines. These are the pedigrees of similar but use exactly the opposite view: it will not be from an animal Tree ( ancestors shown), but from the root animal's offspring .

The term is no longer used in scientific genetics today; in this case one speaks of lineages .

literature

  • Gustav Pusch: Textbook of General Animal Breeding , 1911, p. 354 ( online at Open Library)