Maggot development during morgue storage and its effect on estimating the post-mortem interval

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 453-458

  Huntington, Timothy E ^a   Higley, Leon G ^a   Baxendale, Frederick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Calliphoridae; Forensic entomology; Forensic science; Insect development; Maggot mass temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSAY; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FREEZING; HUMAN; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MAGGOT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CADAVER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33847171510     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00385.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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