operational taxonomic unit

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Noun 1.3 See also 1.4 References

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• OTU

[edit] Noun

operational taxonomic unit (plural operational taxonomic units)

1. A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism.

[edit] See also

• hypothetical taxonomic unit

[edit] References

• D. Graur and W. Li, Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, Second Edition (2000)
• T.A. Brown, Genomes, Third Edition (2007)