可执行的分类操作单位,主要是按照16sDNA测序结果计算遗传距离,人为规定遗传距离,然后依此距离区别微生物类群的分类单位,为了形象直观,并有说服力,往往会和已知菌一起做聚类,从而完成微生物的种属归属鉴定。
An operational taxonomic unit (OTU) is an operational definition used to classify groups of closely related individuals.
For several years, OTUs have been the most commonly used units of microbial diversity, especially when analyzing small subunit 16S or 18S rRNA marker gene sequence datasets.
phylosymbiotic: In the field of microbiome research, a group of species is said to show a phylosymbiotic signal