The phrase "a complementary mutation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to genetics, biology, or evolutionary studies to describe a mutation that enhances or supports the function of another mutation.
Example: "The research team discovered a complementary mutation that improved the organism's resistance to disease."
Alternatives: "an enhancing mutation" or "a supportive mutation".
Heteroduplex analysis was performed as a complementary mutation-screening method for genomic DNA, using primer pairs covering all coding exons, exon intron junctions, and more than 50 bp of flanking intronic sequences.
For example, strand bias could be included by considering the two strands separately for each class of mutation in transcribed regions; in this case one would consider C > T on the transcribed strand to be distinct from G > A (the complementary mutation).
Additional data validating this interface include in vitro and in vivo compensation of the F806L mutation in the C-lobe with a complementary L506F mutation in the N-lobe.
Mutations designed to disrupt the pairing of a stem and loop structure, in which the uAUG codon is localized, reduced recognition of this codon, while complementary mutation restored a great extent of the recognition.
Previously, a network-based approach was used to explain 2 mechanisms of tRNA evolution: point mutation and complementary mutation [27].
In contrast, around nucleosome dyads in the entire genome, we considered both of the plus and minus strands and averaged the mononucleotide and mutation rates in both strands so that the incidences of complementary bases (such as A and T) and complementary mutations (such as A->C and T->G) mirror horizontally around dyads.
Duplicate genes that underwent a division of function behave similarly, though due to an increased waiting time for multiple complementary mutations, exhibit a concave pattern of decay in the hazard function before reaching the lower asymptote (Hughes and Liberles 2007; Konrad et al. 2011; Teufel et al. 2014).
In each taxa, at least one symmetry of nucleotide substitution rates is broken; often, there is an excess of mutations C → T, A → G, and C → G on the leading strand when compared with the complementary mutations G → A, T → C, and G → C, respectively.
Further, the subfunctionalization loss rate behavior has been characterized to be concavely (sigmoidally) declining based upon theoretical expectations of a waiting time for complementary mutations [ 18, 20].
