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Preferred term

operational taxonomic unit

Is replaced by

operational taxonomic unit

Definition

[Henderson's] (1) any group of living organisms, e.g. genus or species, designated by numerical taxonomy; (2) any object that can be used as the unit to be ranked in a phylogenetic tree, e.g. a species, protein sequence or DNA sequence.

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Entry terms

Operational Taxonomic Units
operational taxonomical units
operative taxonomic units
OTU

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0777

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Created 10/12/16, last modified 3/21/22

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