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Keywords: Apomorphy, Taxon, Otu, Cladistic, Uninformative

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Character state unique to a single OTU.

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derived trait or apomorphy that is unique to only one group

http://www.palaeos.com/Systematics/glossary.html

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a derived character state unique to a particular taxon.

http://www.qub.ac.uk/bb/prodohl/TroutConcert/fr_glossary.htm

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An apomorphy in a terminal taxon; diagnoses the terminal but is uninformative about relationships to other terminals; therefore of no use for cladistic tree-building.

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an apomorphy possessed by a species or clade that is shared with no other species or clade.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/classes/bio406/glossary.html

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