“…Sereno et al (2006), while studying the genetic diversity of the Amazonian cacao based on microsatellite markers, also observed a higher heterozygosity in high Amazonian materials (H o = 44,5%). However, it must be considered that TSH1188 is a hybrid involving six different clones in its genealogy (Santos et al 2007), which helps to explain its elevated H o , and a few FO clones in relation to clones collected in natural populations.…”