Identification of fly eggs using scanning electron microscopy for forensic investigations

Micron

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 802-807

  Mendonça, Paloma Martins ^a   dos Santos Mallet, Jacenir Reis ^b   de Mello, Rubens Pinto ^a   Gomes, Leonardo ^a   Queiroz, Margareth Maria de Carvalho ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Setor de Morfologia Ultraestrutura e Bioquímica de Artrópodes e Parasitas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diptera; Eggs; Flies; Forensic entomology; SEM

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HEALTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY EMISSION;

CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIPTERA; EGGS; FLIES; FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY; FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS; INSECT ACTIVITY; ORGANIC MATTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (SEM); SEM;

SCANNING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FLY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZOOLOGY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ENTOMOLOGY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZYGOTE;

CHRYSOMYA MEGACEPHALA; CHRYSOMYA PUTORIA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUCILIA EXIMIA; MUSCOIDEA; OPHYRA;

EID: 48949102834     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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