Re: Miroslav Hill responds (correction)

From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 08 Dec 2005 - 09:23:40 GMT

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    >The last paragraph of the last message should actually be:

    To say that "the more one selects for resistance the more mutants one finds" (p.214 top) is meaningless, for the above reason, unless one can show that in cells never exposed to the _selection pressure_, there are fewer resistant colonies. Since Hill maintains that in cells never exposed to the _selection pressure_, there are actually
    _more_ resistant colonies, this experiment is by definition control-less.

    Selection pressure, not mutagen (there is no mutagen in this experiment, apart from the mutagenic effect probably visible in the serial assay)

    >To say that "the more one selects for resistance the more mutants
    >one finds" (p.214 top) is meaningless, for the above reason, unless
    >one can show that in cells never exposed to the mutagen, there are
    >fewer resistant colonies. Since Hill maintains that in cells never
    >exposed to the mutagen, there are actually _more_ resistant
    >colonies, this experiment is by definition control-less.
    >
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