The Effect of Change of Number of OTU's in a Numerical Taxonomic Study

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The effect of change of number of OTU’s (operational taxonomic units) in a numerical taxonomic study was investigated using 28 taxospecies of the genusSalix in California and 22 sites of sect.Sitchenses of the genus. A coefficient of Euclidean distance was used to estimate relationships among the OTU’s based on 99 morphological characters. Two methods of clustering were employed: 1) Tryon’s key communality cluster analysis, and 2) the unweighted pair group method. The latter results in a phenogram. It was found that the number of OTU’s employed does make a difference. But the difference is not random and is centered around those OTU’s most closely related to the OTU’s being added.

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