The application of mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase II gene for the identification of forensically important blowflies in Western China

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 308-313

  Ying, Bin Wu ^a   Liu, Ting Ting ^b   Fan, Hong ^a   Wei, Dong ^d   Wen, Fu Qiang ^a   Bai, Peng ^c   Huang, Jin ^a   Hou, Yi Ping ^c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Second People's Hospital of Chengdu   (China)

Author keywords

Blowflies; China; Cytochrome oxidase II; Forensic entomology; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FLY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUCILIA SERICATA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DIPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENTOMOLOGY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 36549010933     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e31815b4889     Document Type: Article

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