Aging blow fly eggs using gene expression: A feasibility study

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1350-1354

  Tarone, Aaron M ^a,b   Jennings, Kimberley C ^a   Foran, David R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Calliphoridae; Chitin synthase; Development; Forensic entomology; Forensic science; Lucilia sericata; Postmortem interval; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Slalom

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGING; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; DIPTERA; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENTOMOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OVUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUBULIN;

EID: 36949017472     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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