counterselection
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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[1], :
- 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.
- (evolutionary theory) Dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection).
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