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Preserving Breeding and Population Genetics：保存繁殖和种群遗传学 IMPORTING OUTSIDE BLOOD: For Better...Or Worse? By Henning Lund Boxerhaven Boxers, Norway On the SHOWBOXER-L recently, a list member suggested that importing boxers from another area of the world - especially from the countries in Europe where great emphasis is placed on working ability - would diversify the North American boxer gene pool in a positive way, and help eliminate some prevalent NA health problems. Another list member pointed out that just importing outside blood wouldn’t be of any avail in solving health problems if we didn’t make sure we were importing healthy blood from another country’s bloodlines; and that working ability did not necessarily ensure good health. As the owners of an American import and as breeders who have utilized the bloodlines of several different European countries in our own breeding program, we’d like to expand upon those statements a bit. First, in our part of the world, several lines live side by side, with very little exchange between them. Therefore, even within the small population of boxers we have in Norway and Sweden, there is a lot of potential genetic diversity that is not taken advantage of. If that is true in small countries like Norway and Sweden, it is probably also true in a huge country (huge in terms of both area and boxer population) like the United States. Another point to consider: There is reason to believe that we dont have nearly as much BCM, for example, here as you have in North America. But BCM isn’t the only health problem you have to watch out for. Importing new material is very useful and often necessay, but has to be done very carefully, and the risk is that you will import dogs that bring with them a higher frequency of other problems than you already have. Therefore, imports must be used with great care, and followed by careul screening and selection. (It isnt easy to be a good breeder) There are two things (at least) to think