German Hunting Terrier
Placed on this panel from 6 sequenced dogs, among 258 breeds.
Measured nearest to Smooth Fox Terrier — but drop any one of the sequenced dogs behind this breed and a different one comes first, so naming a single closest breed would be a lie of precision. The top of this list is a tie.
The 12 breeds nearest to German Hunting Terrier.
The line starts at the tightest pairing this panel holds and ends at the widest separation measured on it, so how far along these marks sit is the answer to how close German Hunting Terrier really is to anything.
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Smooth Fox Terrier2
Wire Fox Terrier3
Welsh Terrier4
Lakeland Terrier5
Parson Russell Terrier6
Patterdale Terrier7
Sealyham Terrier8
Staffordshire Bull Terrier9
Toy Fox Terrier10
Danish-Swedish Farmdog11
Miniature Bull Terrier12
American Hairless Terrier
Smooth Fox Terrier2Wire Fox Terrier3Welsh Terrier4Lakeland Terrier5Parson Russell Terrier6Patterdale Terrier7Sealyham Terrier8Staffordshire Bull Terrier9Toy Fox Terrier10Danish-Swedish Farmdog11Miniature Bull Terrier12American Hairless TerrierCloseness is measured from the genomes, and nothing else. It has no units and no dates. Two breeds sitting close together means their lines separate late in this data. It does not mean either one came from the other.