Potential use of bacterial community succession for estimating post-mortem interval as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Guo, Juanjuan ^a   Fu, Xiaoliang ^a   Liao, Huidan ^a   Hu, Zhenyu ^b   Long, Lingling ^a   Yan, Weitao ^a   Ding, Yanjun ^a   Zha, Lagabaiyila ^a   Guo, Yadong ^a   Yan, Jie ^a   Chang, Yunfeng ^a   Cai, Jifeng ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Central South University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOUTH; MOUTH MUCOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECTUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROBIOTA; MOUTH; MOUTH MUCOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84963656261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24197     Document Type: Article

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