operational taxonomic unit
English
Alternative forms
- OTU
Noun
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
- hypothetical taxonomic unit
References
- D. Graur and W. Li, Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, Second Edition (2000)
- T.A. Brown, Genomes, Third Edition (2007)