John,

Your comments just support the whole idea of the CBOL initiative.  You
should be a big supporter.  The whole idea is to link DNA, conchological
vouchers, images, morphological analysis, and other appropriate analysis.

http://barcoding.si.edu/

Marlo

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Dear Alan,

Your work is good and of course I appreciate the information that
molecular studies provide.  However, these studies are valid when there
are differences to be found.  In the case of Melongena corona (sensu
lato) the molecular study was uninstructive.  This could be because
there are no differences or because the genes chosen were not the ones
that would help.

I also might mention a real problem with molecular studies is the lack
of conchological vouchers.  Now all of the these sequences are in a gene
bank but the molecular scientists seem to have little concept as to what
they are calling what.  ....

Yours,
John K. Tucker

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