Sentences with phrase «operational taxonomic units»

[3] The microorganisms were specifically categorized by operational taxonomic unit (OTU).

For example, many studies on human microbiota identify species (or operational taxonomic units) and map evolutionary relationships using the 16S ribosomal RNA gene.

Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that comprised more than 0.5 % of the OTUs in any sample were grouped into the appropriate family and plotted.

Assigning 16S rRNA gene sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) allows microbial ecologists to overcome the inconsistencies and biases within bacterial taxonomy and provides a strategy for clustering similar sequences that do not have representatives in a reference database.