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SUBMITTER: Cornejo OE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191438 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cornejo Omar E OE Yee Muh-Ching MC Dominguez Victor V Andrews Mary M Sockell Alexandra A Strandberg Erika E Livingstone Donald D Stack Conrad C Romero Alberto A Umaharan Pathmanathan P Royaert Stefan S Tawari Nilesh R NR Ng Pauline P Gutierrez Osman O Phillips Wilbert W Mockaitis Keithanne K Bustamante Carlos D CD Motamayor Juan C JC
Communications biology 20181016
Domestication has had a strong impact on the development of modern societies. We sequenced 200 genomes of the chocolate plant <i>Theobroma cacao</i> 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: 2481-13,806 years ago). We also show that during the process of domestication, there was strong selection for genes involved in the metabolism of the colored protectants anthocyanins and the stimula ...[more]