Table 5.

Genes subjected to positive selection in the domestication of eggplant.

Function classification	Orthologous gene ID	K a/K s	Gene name or protein family	Function annotated	References
Hormone response	OG06215	1.27994	Domon superfamily	Auxin-induced protein in root culture protein
	OG12205	1.45957	Aux/IAA family	Auxin-responsive protein	Kumar et al. [51]
	OG08277	1.77181	Ribosomal protein	Serve as translational regulators of auxin response	Li et al. [54]
Response to disease and abiotic stress	OG03724	1.30858	Pentatricopeptide repeat protein	Respond to disease and abiotic stress, such as pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and ABA. Play a broad and essential role in plant growth and development	Park et al. [60], Tan et al. [55], Li et al. [49]
	OG07232, OG07554	1.74664	E3 ubiquitin ligase	Respond to drought stress and antiviral defense. Involve in the postgerminative seedling growth transition and root and flowering development.	Xia et al. [59], Liu et al. [63]
		1.02972
	OG10870	1.55109	DnaJ subfamily	Enhances tolerance to drought stress and Pseudomonas solanacearum	Wang et al. [62]
	OG09141	1.13547	F-box/kelch repeat protein	Promotes nematode susceptibility and involved in light signaling, flowering, and circadian control. Regulates leaf senescence, seed size, and panicle architecture and modulates cytokinin levels	Curtis et al. [68]
	OG08464	1.59571			Chen et al. [69]
	OG06038	1.4737	Calvin cycle protein CP12 superfamily	Linked to stress responses and be part of a redox-mediated metabolic switch, allowing organisms to respond to rapid changes in the external environment	Gontero and Maberly [65], Marri et al. [66], López et al. [67]
	OG03732	1.22007	Early nodulin 16 precursor	Involved in various plant activities and plant response to environmental factors such as light, water deficit, cold, ozone stress and toxicity, and osmotic stress	Wu et al. [64]
Oxidation reduction pathway	OG06179	1.15523	HTC in leaf	Nitrogen compound metabolic process and oxidation-reduction process and nitrite reductase (cytochrome, ammonia-forming) activity
	OG06849	1.23173	HTC in root, Clp protease proteolytic subunit 3	Thioredoxin-like protein and cell redox homeostasis
	OG05048	1.03583		Thioredoxin serine dehydrogenase proteinase
				Proteolysis serine-type endopeptidase activity
	OG09458	1.65912	HTC in leaf, NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase	Transport proton when NADH was dehydrogenated to ubiquinone in mitochondria
	OG05094	1.04564	Aminoethanethiol dioxygenase	Cysteine dioxygenase activity and L-cysteine oxidation-reduction
Development	OG05091	1.12163	Thiamin pyrophosphokinase	TPK activity for thiamin cofactor activation and this activity is essential for viability	Ajjawi et al. [70]
	OG06647, OG05019	5.73809	Phospholipid-binding protein	Critical for maintaining directional root hair growth in Arabidopsis	Yoo et al. [71]
		1.04878

The references in which the homolog of the eggplant unigene in other species had been characterized for its biological function.