A cross between an animal that is heterozygous for alleles obtained from two parental strains and a second animal from one of those parental strains Also used to describe the breeding protocol of an outcross followed by a backcross See also: model organisms
the offspring of a hybrid crossed with one or the other of its parents; in the case of interspecific hybrids, with a member of one or the other parent species
A cross between one animal type that is heterozygous for alleles obtained from two parental strains and a second animal type from one of those parental strains The term is often used by itself to describe the two generation breeding protocol of an outcross followed by a backcross used frequently in linkage analysis (see Chapter 3 and Chapter 9) See Backcross in the MGI Glossary