counterselection
Selection that removes unwanted characteristics.
Noun
- 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...
- Dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection).
Origin
From counter- + selection.