An initial investigation into the ecology of culturable aerobic postmortem bacteria

Science and Justice

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 394-401

  Chun, Lauren P ^a   Miguel, Marcus J ^a   Junkins, Emily N ^a   Forbes, Shari L ^b   Carter, David O ^a  

^a CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Larval mass; PH; Redox potential; Taphonomy; Temperature; Total body score

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; CARCASS; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; DECOMPOSITION; DOMESTIC PIG; ECOLOGY; FIRMICUTES; HEAD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LIMB; MAGGOT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PROTEOBACTERIA; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HAWAII; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; PIG;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HAWAII; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LARVA; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84939202403     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: 18764452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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