10844 IUPAC Gold Book - inbred strain 10.1351/goldbook.10844 10844 current 1 Strain of an animal that has been inbred by brother-sister matings for more than \(\pu{20}\) generations, and consequently all the individuals of the strain are more than \(\pu{98\%}\) genetically identical. PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 768 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-1202) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10844/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10844/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10844/plain Citation: 'inbred strain' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10844 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-14T07:54:47+00:00