The potential use of bacterial community succession in forensics as described by high throughput metagenomic sequencing

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 193-205

  Pechal, Jennifer L ^a,b   Crippen, Tawni L ^c   Benbow, M Eric ^b   Tarone, Aaron M ^a   Dowd, Scot ^d   Tomberlin, Jeffery K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Molecular Research LP   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Carrion; Decomposition; Epinecrotic communities; Minimum PMI; Necrobiome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MALE; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 84891826092     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-013-0872-1     Document Type: Article

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