As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large.
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Revertent
//ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt//
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The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
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Histochemical staining using antibodies to N, C and rod domain epitopes of dystrophin usually show complete absence of the protein, except for occasional revertent fibres (there are fibres which label normally with antibodies to dystrophin; their origin is not understood; Fig. 20.2F).
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The greater the stress, the greater the tendency to revert to occult practices and an earlier stage of intellectual development, and these revertent ideologies thereby compete for acceptance.
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