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counterselection

noun

Etymology

From counter- + selection.

  1. learned borrowing from sēlēctiō
  2. prefixed as counterselection — “counter + selection”

Definitions

  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.

  2. Dysgenic selection (that has the opposite effects of natural selection).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterselection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA