operational taxonomic unit
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]operational taxonomic unit (plural operational taxonomic units)
- A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism.
- External nodes: things under comparison; operational taxonomic units
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- D. Graur and W. Li, Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, Second Edition (2000)
- T.A. Brown, Genomes, Third Edition (2007)