Wire Fox Terrier — an AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of a real dog
An AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of a real dog.

Wire Fox Terrier

Placed on this panel from 4 sequenced dogs, among 258 breeds.

Measured nearest to Lakeland Terrier, and nothing among the other 257 breeds is nearer. The smallest branch holding them both covers 0.7% of this tree.

The 12 breeds nearest to Wire Fox 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 Wire Fox Terrier really is to anything.

1Lakeland Terrier2Welsh Terrier3Smooth Fox Terrier4German Hunting Terrier5Parson Russell Terrier6Patterdale Terrier7Sealyham Terrier8Miniature Bull Terrier9Cesky Terrier10Bull Terrier11Kromfohrlander12Danish-Swedish Farmdog

Closeness 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.

4 sequenced dogs is a thin sample. This breed’s exact neighbours could move if more were added; the neighbourhood is steadier than the order within it.