Forensic evaluations on a crime case with monospecific necrophagous fly population infected by two parasitoid species

Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 12-18

  Turchetto, Margherita ^a   Vanin, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fly monospecific population; Fly parasitoids; Forensic Entomology; Hydrotaea capensis; Nasonia vitripennis; P.M.I.; Tachinaephagus zealandicus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BEETLE; CASE REPORT; DECOMPOSITION; DENSITY; FEMALE; FLY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MUSCIDAE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; PARASITOSIS; SURVIVAL; TIME OF DEATH; WASP; ZOOLOGY;

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