Best practice in forensic entomology - Standards and guidelines

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 90-104

  Amendt, Jens ^a   Campobasso, Carlo P ^b   Gaudry, Emmanuel ^c   Reiter, Christian ^d   LeBlanc, Hélène N ^e   J R Hall, Martin ^f  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie   (France)

^d Institute of Forensic Medicine   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forensic entomology; Guidelines; Postmortem interval; Quality assurance; Standards

Indexed keywords

PRESERVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CUSTODY; DOCUMENTATION; EQUIPMENT; FORENSIC SCIENCE; LABORATORY; MICROCLIMATE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BENCHMARKING; DOCUMENTATION; ENTOMOLOGY; EUROPE; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33846912535     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0086-x     Document Type: Article

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