counterselection
nounEtymology From counter- + selection.
1
Selection that removes unwanted characteristics.
- 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.2015 July 11, “Novel recA -Independent Horizontal Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli K-12”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
2
Dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection).
Evolutionary theory
- Related terms
- counterselectable, counterselective, contraselection