Peer-reviewed research article by Omar Cornejo and colleagues in Communications Biology, 2018, that sequenced 200 cacao genomes and dated the strong domestication of the Criollo population to about 3,600 years ago. It is a primary report in a peer-reviewed journal, so it sits at the top reliability tier.
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AuthorOmar E. Cornejo
PublisherCommunications Biology
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0168-6
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier1
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Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process (Communications Biology)
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