Molecular identification of carrion-breeding scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) using COI barcodes

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 577-581

  Boehme, Petra ^a   Amendt, Jens ^a   Disney, R Henry L ^b   Zehner, Richard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase I; DNA barcoding; Forensic entomology; Phoridae

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; FEMALE; FLY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LARVA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOOLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; CADAVER; DIPTERA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LARVA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651229208     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-010-0429-5     Document Type: Article

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