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Genomic and phenotypic imprints of microbial domestication on cheese starter cultures.
Nature communications - 5 Oct 2024
Somerville Vincent, Thierer Nadine, Schmidt Remo S, Roetschi Alexandra, Braillard Lauriane, Haueter Monika, Berthoud Hélène, Shani Noam, von Ah Ueli, Mazel Florent, Engel Philipp
Abstract excerpt
Domestication - the artificial selection of wild species to obtain variants with traits of human interest - was integral to the rise of complex societies. The oversupply of food was probably associated with the formalization of food preservation strategies through microbial fermentation. While considerable literature exists on the antiquity of fermented food, only few eukaryotic microbes have been studied so far...
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