Forensic identification using skin bacterial communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6477-6481

  Fierer, Noah ^a   Lauber, Christian L ^a   Zhou, Nick ^a   McDonald, Daniel ^a   Costello, Elizabeth K ^a   Knight, Rob ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial forensics; Human microbiome; Microbial ecology; Pyrosequencing; Skin microbiology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN FLORA; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; FINGERS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; SKIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS;

EID: 77950904616     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000162107     Document Type: Article

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