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Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process

Domestication has had a strong impact on the development of modern societies. We sequenced 200 genomes of the chocolate plant Theobroma cacao L. to show for the first time to our knowledge that a single population, the Criollo population, underwent strong domestication ~3600 years ago (95% CI: 2481–...

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Autores principales: Cornejo, Omar E., Yee, Muh-Ching, Dominguez, Victor, Andrews, Mary, Sockell, Alexandra, Strandberg, Erika, Livingstone, Donald, Stack, Conrad, Romero, Alberto, Umaharan, Pathmanathan, Royaert, Stefan, Tawari, Nilesh R., Ng, Pauline, Gutierrez, Osman, Phillips, Wilbert, Mockaitis, Keithanne, Bustamante, Carlos D., Motamayor, Juan C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6191438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30345393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0168-6