line breeding

noun

1. selective inbreeding that produces individuals possessing one or more of the favourable characteristics of their common ancestor

Example Sentences

To rule out that possibility, Mansuy studied only the male line, breeding untraumatized, "naïve" female mice with traumatized males, and then removing males from the mother's cage so that their behavior did not impact their offspring.

From Science Magazine

To foster the desired appearance, breeders often turn to line breeding—a type of inbreeding that mates direct relatives, such as grandmother and grandson.

From Scientific American

This line breeding gave them a start toward genetic purity�a most desirable quality in research animals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Line breeding from father to daughter, or brother to sister—in domestic animals, of course—was all right in fixing desirable traits, providing certain recessives in both the dam and the sire did not thus become dominant.

From Project Gutenberg

In line breeding you breed the father to his daughter and the son to his mother.

From Project Gutenberg