counterselection
English
Noun
counterselection (countable and uncountable, plural counterselections)
- selection that removes unwanted characteristics
- 2015 July 11, “Novel recA -Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli K-12”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- In all recipients, distant drug resistance markers streptomycin (SmR; rpsL104), chloramphenicol (CmR; recA::cat(FRT)), and/or nalidixic acid (NlR; gyrA96) were used for counterselection.
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- (evolutionary theory) dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection)
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