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The concept of operational taxonomic units revisited: genomes of bacteria that are regarded as closely related are often highly dissimilar.

Folia microbiologica - 1 Jan 2019

Lladó Fernández Salvador, Větrovský Tomáš, Baldrian Petr

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The concept of operational taxonomic units (OTUs), which constructs "mathematically" defined taxa, is widely accepted and applied to describe bacterial communities using amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA gene. OTUs are often used to infer functional traits since they are considered to fairly represent of community members. However, the link between molecular taxa, real taxa, and OTUs seems to be much more...

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PMID: 29926341
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-018-0627-y

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