The environmental biological signature: NGS profiling for forensic comparison of soils

Forensic Science International

Volumn 240, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-47

  Giampaoli, S ^a   Berti, A ^b   Di Maggio, R M ^c   Pilli, E ^d   Valentini, A ^e   Valeriani, F ^a   Gianfranceschi, G ^a   Barni, F ^b   Ripani, L ^b   Romano Spica, V ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b Carabinieri   (Italy)

^c Geoscienze Forensi   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e Bâtiment Koala   (France)

^f MDD University Spin off   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metabarcoding; MFDNA; Soil

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DENATURATION; DNA BARCODING; DNA EXTRACTION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

BACTERIAL DNA; MINERAL; PLANT DNA; SOIL;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENOME; HUMANS; MINERALS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84899805553     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.02.028     Document Type: Article

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