Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2013 Oct;69(1):306-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.025. Epub 2013 Jun 11.
The purpose of the study "Phylogeographic relationships among Asian eggplants and new perspectives on eggplant domestication" by Meyer et al. (2012) was to use new and expanded accession sets coupled with molecular data to evaluate possible scenarios of eggplant domestication with as little influence as possible from any previously published nomenclatural scheme, and taking into consideration multiple sources of evidence regarding the history of eggplant in Asia. Samuels (2013) disfavored this system and in his Letter to the Editor attempted to re-evaluate the results according to his system. However, Samuels appears to have misread Meyer et al. and also makes several claims without the support of evidence. We stand by the results of Meyer et al., which are in agreement with the recent and much needed new taxonomic treatment for wild relatives of eggplant.
迈耶等人（2012 年）的研究“亚洲茄子的系统地理关系及茄子驯化的新视角”旨在使用新的和扩展的收录集以及分子数据来评估茄子驯化的可能情景，尽可能减少任何先前发表的命名方案的影响，并考虑到亚洲茄子历史的多个证据来源。萨缪尔斯（2013 年）不赞成这个系统，他在给编辑的信中试图根据自己的系统重新评估结果。然而，萨缪尔斯似乎误解了迈耶等人的研究，并且在没有证据支持的情况下提出了几项主张。我们支持迈耶等人的研究结果，这些结果与茄子野生近缘种最近急需的新分类学处理方法是一致的。
