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This concept has been deprecated.

deprecated concept > operational taxonomic unit

Preferred term

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

Entry terms

  • operational taxonomical units
  • Operational Taxonomic Units
  • operative taxonomic units
  • OTU

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

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