Incidence of precocious egg development in flies of forensic importance (Calliphoridae)

Pan-Pacific Entomologist

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 235-239

  Wells, Jeffrey D ^a,b   King, Jennifer ^a  

^a Division of Insect Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Calliphora; Compsomyiops; Insecta forensic entomology; Lucilia; Phormia; Postmortem interval estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035471103     PISSN: 00310603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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