This is the first report on the phylogenetic analysis of the community diversity of a single spontaneous cocoa bean box fermentation sample through a metagenomic approach involving 454 pyrosequencing.
The fermentation of cocoa beans are a crucial step in the production of chocolate. Samples were collected in the periods of 0, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120 and 144 h during the fermentation. The goal is to ide
